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Name: Helix  Nebula - NGC7293 - Distance 690 Light Years  -In the Constellation Aquarius. 

This was the first light image after modifying the 20D removing the internal IR blocking filter.  I was late setting up to take this imagine resulting in the target being past Zenith when I started to imagine this target.  As a result I only got 42 minutes of exposure before it was to low from the horizon as seeing got too poor.  I will need to add some more images later to get the total exposure time up to improve the detail.

I took dark images but I did not use them when I stacked the lights in CS4.

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