Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Aquarius (Aqr)  ·  Contains:  Helix Nebula  ·  NGC 7293
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Helix Nebula - OS+HOO Palette - True Color Representation, messierman3000
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Helix Nebula - OS+HOO Palette - True Color Representation

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Helix Nebula - OS+HOO Palette - True Color Representation

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Data is from the NASA HST, definitely not mine .

OS+HOO assigned to luminosity to bring out more Oxygen details.
OS+HOO assigned to red. Sulfur blended into Hydrogen, just because I thought it was a waste to set aside the Sulfur because it's also red. Not a new idea, as I found out recently.
OS+HOO assigned to green and blue.

The red tone was made a little darker or deeper to represent true H alpha or SII or both
The blue tone from the Oxygen III was made more turquoise to represent true Oxygen III

All was done in Photoshop

Hope you like it. I know I didn't bring out enough of the deeper red details though, since I tried to keep the noise low by increasing contrast though curves (darkening dark areas).

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Helix Nebula - OS+HOO Palette - True Color Representation, messierman3000