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NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula
An emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth; formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with and energizing slower-moving matter ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago.

NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula

An emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth; formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with and energizing slower-moving matter ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago.




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Filename:NGC6888_20200621_LRGB2.jpg
Album name:27telp / Nebulae
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, California, 6/21/2020
Equipment:Imaging: William Optics FL-132 refractor on Astro-Physics 1200GTO mount, ZWO ASI1600MM camera with Astrodon filters; Guiding - Borg 50mm guidescope with Starlight Xpress Ultrastar camera
Settings:Luminance, Red, Green and Blue - 13 exposures @120 seconds, bin1x1; Hydrogen-alpha, 13 exposures @300 seconds, bin1x1.
Notes:Software: Image capture - Sequence Generator Pro 3.2.0.660; Guiding - PHD2; Processing - PixInsight 1.8.8, Photoshop CC
Filesize:2269 KiB
Date added:Aug 07, 2022
Dimensions:1915 x 1540 pixels
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EXIF Offset:266
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Image Description:NGC6888 - The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus
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Software:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.4.1 (Windows)
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