I've been photographing the 'Eye of God' nebula in my backyard for the past month. This is the result!

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image showing I've been photographing the 'Eye of God' nebula in my backyard for the past month. This is the result!

LtChestnut on October 27th, 2020 at 07:17 UTC »

My instagram is @astro_che if you wanna check it out :)

Also known as the Helix nebula. Bit of a mess of an image. Captured over the past few months between targets, some data was shot at gain -1 (don't ask) and a fair amount of rejected subs due to clouds. Finally done tho :D

Camera - Qhy183M

Mount - Belt-Modded HEQ5 (Guided with 120mc-s)

Optics - Samyang 135 F/2

Filters - Optolong LRGBSHO

MiniPC Running Nina/Sharpcap (For Pa)/PHD2

Ha: 107 * 180s at F/2

Oiii: 99 *180s at F/2

Total of 6.7h

Calibrated, Stacked, Drizzled (2x) in Pixinsight.

Crop/DBE Channels, then stacked to create master lum.

Lum ->

EzDenoise

Push Nebula Without Stars

EzSoftstretch

RGB ->

Combined using Dreamsplease

LRGB combo (with Chrom NR)

Star reduction made with mask out of EzStarReduction

purrrburt on October 27th, 2020 at 07:18 UTC »

Dude your backyard looks huge

OliversCandyMan19 on October 27th, 2020 at 07:19 UTC »

Thank you for sharing the result of all your efforts. This turned out beautifully. I can’t even imagine how amazing this must have been as you pulled it all together.