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Deep in the Heart of Mordor... The Helix, NGC 7293, Andy 01

Deep in the Heart of Mordor... The Helix, NGC 7293

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Description

... Sauron's Eye is watching!

75hrs data gathered over 2 months from Melbourne, Australia. (of which 64 hrs made the final cut).

Pushed the data pretty hard to get the outer chevrons & fiiigree details to seperate from the LP at my inner suburban location, so there's some noise present to maintain the signal!

30hrs 3nm Ha 1800 secs

30Hrs 3nm Ha Bin x 2 1200 secs

11 Hrs O3 1800 secs

1hr each RG & B 120secs

Wanted to show the O3 eye structures in the iris, so plenty of masking used in PS to balance the Ha/O3 present.

Big project - hopefully finished now!

Processed in AstropixelProcessor & PS.

Thanks for looking, C&C welcome

APOD : https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190213.html

IAPOTY Shortlisted image - https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2019/jun/19/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2019-shortlist-in-pictures

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  • Deep in the Heart of Mordor... The Helix, NGC 7293, Andy 01
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  • Deep in the Heart of Mordor... The Helix, NGC 7293, Andy 01
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  • Deep in the Heart of Mordor... The Helix, NGC 7293, Andy 01
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  • Final
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C

Description: This version has very little noise reduction, so it has more detail, but more noise too!

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D

Description: Tried Topaz Noise reduction - works well!

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E

Description: Sharpened LUM layer - rebalanced noise vs. NR with Topaz

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Deep in the Heart of Mordor... The Helix, NGC 7293, Andy 01