Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Aquarius (Aqr)  ·  Contains:  Helix Nebula  ·  NGC 7293
Helix Nebula: 61 hour balcony saga, Igor Chekalin
Helix Nebula: 61 hour balcony saga
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Helix Nebula: 61 hour balcony saga

Helix Nebula: 61 hour balcony saga, Igor Chekalin
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Helix Nebula: 61 hour balcony saga

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NGC7293, perhaps my main object of this summer winter, filmed almost every night during its visibility from the balcony.

Canon EOS-Ra DSLR on TAL-250K (10" Klevtsov-Cassegrain) with 0.7x flattner/reducer (NPZ MkII), mount Skywatcher EQ6R-Pro
Balcony in Brisbane, Bortle-7 sky.

1359 x 1 min RGB
1285 min by 5 and 10 min subexposures with H-alpla filter (Antlia 3nm), mostly taken with the Moon
1000 min by 10 min subs with O-III filter (Antlia 3nm)

Total 3644 min (60 h 44 m) of exposures taken during 32 nights in 2021:
31 of July, 04, 05, 06, 07, 11, 15, 16, 19, 21, 27, 28, 29 of August 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 02, 03, 04 of September.

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Description: Naturally starless. No neural network exploited. Massive faint stars was removed by substraction of Continuum image (intensity-scaled Red and Green channels for H-alpha and O-III respectively) brightest and unusual spectrum stars left a lot of residual artifacts which was manually removed by re-touching in PS

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Helix Nebula: 61 hour balcony saga, Igor Chekalin