NGC 7293, the Helix Nebula |
Adventures in astroimaging and miscellaneous nonsense by an amateur astronomer in East Texas.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Helix Nebula
I took this image of NGC 7293, the Helix Nebula, the same night that I imaged the Cocoon Nebula. It was way hotter that night than it needed to be, and my DSLR was showing definite signs of heatstroke. Still, I plowed forward, taking images on the Epsilon-200. The NJP mount was giving me fits, too, but I managed to make it behave enough to get a few decent subs of the nebula. Anyway, after many attempts at processing and reprocessing what, for all intents and purposes, was a whole bunch of crummy subs, I got this:
Labels:
nebulae,
needs improvement
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