NGC7293

"Helix Nebula"

Constellation- Aquarius

Right Ascension: 22h 29m 56 s

Declination: -20° 46' 16"

Distance: 450 light years

Visual Brightness: 7.3 mag

Apparent Dimension: 12.8 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- September 30^th, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- Ha = 11 x 600 seconds binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, combined in AstroArt 2.0