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NGC6888 - Crescent Nebula in SHO Narrowband

The Crescent Nebula is located in the constellation of Cygnus, I have attempted to image this in the past without success, but this time I managed to get quite a lot of data to play with, the data was acquired on various nights in September, October and November 2018

 

Image Details:

Red Channel - SII Data - 89x300S

Green Channel - Ha Data - 64x300S

Blue Channel - OIII Data - 109x300S

 

101 Darsk, Flats and BIAS Frames used

 

Equipment Used:

Imaging Camera: QHY183M Mono ColdMOS Camera at -20C

Imaging Scope: Skywatcher Quattro 8" F4 Newtonian

Guide Scope: Skywatcher Finder Scope

Guide Camera: QHY5L-II

Mount: Skywatcher EQ8 Pro GEM Mount

Focuser: PrimaluceLabs ROBO Focuser

Filterwheel: StarlightXpress 7x36mm EFW

Filters: Baader 7nm Ha, SII and OIII

Acquision Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro

Processing Software: Pixinsight 1.8.5

 

 

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Uploaded on December 25, 2018