Crescent Nebula NGC6888

[tmarkuk]

A wide-ish-field view of the Crescent nebula in Cygnus from last night, though I think it could stand another hour or two of subs to help clean it up. Don't go hunting for the bubble, the image scale is a bit to wide and the resolution a bit to low to pick it up. I might have to have another go at both objects once I have the reflector mounted again.

This is a region where a modified camera would do wonders, I really should get on with doing mine.

Tim.

Imaging Equipment

William Optics ZS66SD

William Optics MkII 0.8 Field Flattener

Canon EOS 1000D (unmodified)

Astronomic CLS CCD Filter

Guiding and Mount

Vixen A70LF Refractor

Modified Philips SPC900NC Webcam

IR/UV Cut Filter

0.6x Focal Reducer

Celestron CGEM Mount

Exposures

32 x 5 minutes (160 minutes total)

29 x bias

29 x dark

31 x flat

The images were calibrated and debayered in Iris then aligned, stacked and processed in Pixinsight.

[Deneb]

Thats a remarkable widefield especially that the camera is not modded.

Nadeem.

[Psychobilly]

Extremely nice image form an unmodded camera..

Cygnus in general is a brilliant target for a Ha Hoover .. pop that filter out go on you know you want to... you wont regret it

Peter...

[sgazer]

at first I thought it was done with a mono ccd using something like the HST pallete, I like the colours. It's amazing for an unmodified 1000d. I know the mod lets in much more Ha, but for me it seems to make things very red. Perhaps it's just my lack of processing skills, but it would be interesting to see if a mod'd one could turn out the same mix of colours.

[RikM]

Lovely image Tim.

Rik

[the rev]

Really nice image. Looks good in the wide field.

Kate