• 6888 in Cygnus, the Crescent Nebula
  • NGC 6888 in Cygnus, the Crescent Nebula
    Annotated image
  • NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus,
  • is an emission nebula.
  • Hover over the image for an annotated view.
  • Date:  28 June 2022
  • FOV:  cropped to 68' × 45'; the angular size of NGC 6888 is about 18' × 12'
  • Telescope:  Stellarvue SVX102T + SFFX-1 flattener (714mm, f/7)
  • Guiding:  ZWO ASI120MM mini mono guide camera,
  • Stellarvue F050G 50mm guide scope
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Cooled (-10°C) Color CMOS with gain 240
  • Filter:  Baader Light Pollution Moonglow filter with IR cut (10 frames)
  • and Optolong L-eNhance narrow dual band (30 frames)
  • Stacking:  Forty 240 second frames using Deep Sky Stacker
  • Total Time:  2 hours 40 minutes
  • Processing:  Pixinsight – SPPC, DBE, SPCC, BlurXT, NoiseXT, DynCrop,
  • MStr, GHS, HST, PMath MStr + GHS + HST, HDR4, Scale
  • Location:  Darling Hill Observatory in Vesper, NY