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Published: 2011-07-29 09:45:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 2560; Favourites: 76; Downloads: 0
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Β© Greg Gibbs. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, or modify this image without my permission. All Rights Reserved.The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a large planetary nebula in Aquarius. It is also sometimes referred to as "The Eye Of God." A planetary nebula is formed when a star similar in size to our own, begins shedding it's outer layers at the end of it's life. The star will usually eventually become a white dwarf.
28/07/2011
Canon EOS 1000D
Baader Coma Corrector
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
NEQ6 PRO Computerised Goto Mount
Orion 80mm ShortTube Guide Scope
Synguider Autoguider
30 x 3 minute exposures
10 x 3 minute dark frames
ISO 800
Images stacked and alligned in Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing in Photoshop Elements 8.0
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Comments: 34
The Helix Nebula truly is large in the night sky. In fact, its angular diameter is only 30% smaller than our moon.
You've done great work. Β
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Thank you so much 
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You're welcome. Β
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I love your work
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Thank you very much
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You're welcome! And thanks, much appreciated
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So its kind of dying out like a comet? Also, why does it start shedding?
Beautiful shot!!
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Thank you very much
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Are you a creationist or evolutionist or what are you other then those two?
I'm a creationist and I believe that God will destroy everything with fire just like he said he would.
With the ejecting the material into deep space, With the sun doing that so much then the sun will not be there anymore, therefore how can it swallow up the earth? I can see the heat from the newly formed red giant boil up the water and atmosphere, but I just don't see it eating the earth.
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I don't have much of an opinion either way. The expanding sun is of course just a theory by scientists based on observations of other stars. No one knows exactly what will happen at the end, but I come across this theory quite a bit in what I read. That at the end of a stars life they expand in size. Weather or not it expands enough to reach where the earth is is pure speculation. Some say it wont reach the earth, others say it could expand enough to even reach Mars. I don't want to get into a debate about it. I just like to photograph what is out there in space, I don't pretend to know everything about what I photograph but I like to at least get a bit of background information on what it is, and that is the most common explanation I have come across.
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Ok, then 
I think it is a cool theory but of course know one really knows what will happen in the end like you said.
Well, thanks for explaining that for me and thanks for the conversation.
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Awesome shot O_O I love the universe, it's so mysterious, there is so little known about it... Too bad we'll collide with the Andromeda galaxy someday (although our solar system has been destroyed for a looong time by then (sorry for my terrible English >.< )) xD
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Thank you very much
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You're very welcome!
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Awesome picture, awesome explanation.
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Thank you very much Heather
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Thank you very much (again 
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My daughter was browsing the internet, looking for wallpapers that include the sky and stars. So I called her in and showed her your work. She loves it. This is amazing work and the clarity of the nebula couldn't be better. Well done.
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Thank you so much to you and your daughter
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youΒ΄re welcome
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waah so dreamy. The colors are caught really good~ good job
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Thank you so much for the nice feedback
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I'm glad you think so.
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Thank you so much
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I would die to see something like this with my own eyes...of course the radiation would probably kill me in an instant...
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It certainly would be amazing, but yes we would all 'die' to see it. Thanks
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Hehehe
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