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A Narrowband Helix

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NGC 7293 – Helix Nebula in Aquarius – SHORGB v1

Some old narrowband data of the Helix was sitting for quite a while on my hard disk. Recently I started to adopt the “Foraxx” palette described in The Coldest Nights blog and used this technique with the SHO data, but combined both the SHO Foraxx and Bicolor Foraxx results, with a bit of RGB mixed in, and added RGB stars. Hope that the result isn’t too bad. ;-)

See an older post for a “classic” rendering of NGC 7293.

More details at Astrobin (70 % crop).

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