Crescent Nebula NGC 6888

[Andy Nowlen]

This is my first capture of the Crescent Nebula. Actually undertaken on the one year anniversary of starting into the astrophotography hobby. What a ride.
I captured this image using two rigs as follows:

Mount 1
Takahashi FSQ 106n @ 530mm
Asi533mcpro
Optolong L-extreme filter
Ioptron CEM40EC mount

Mount 2
Explore Scientific 102mm @ 714mm
Asi533mcpro
Optolong L-enhance filter
Ioptron CEM40 mount

Integration
131 * 240 seconds
8.5 hours

Processing:
Astropixelprocessor to stack
Pixinsight to start
Photoshop to finish

 

[JimFox]

Congrats on 1 year Andy!

This is an awesome image, a great way to celebrate 1 year. The Crescent nebula reminds me often of a brain, and you really captured some great detail with this.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Fabulous detail Andy

 

[CRTAstro]

Beautiful image Andy !

 

[Mike Lewis]

Fantastic results - I would say it took me more like 10 years from start to get a Crescent Nebula image of similar quality to this Really good results coming out of the OSC cameras with special filtering in front these days. Nice work!

ML