The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888)

Posted by StevenWissler
on Friday, October 19, 2012

Scope used and reducer: 10" Meade LX200 ACF/ Astro-Physics .67 Telecompressor
Mount Used: Meade LX-200, Guiding w 80mm Meade ED APO and Fishcamp Starfish guide camera
Camera Used: Cooled, Modified Canon EOS T1i
Location: Sierra Madre, CA Bortle 7 Sky

Crescent Nebula NGC6888 in H-Alpha/RGB

RGB Data: 87 sub-frames, 300 seconds each at ISO 1600 take on June 26th and 27th, 2012
H-Alpha Data: 63 sub-frames, 300 seconds each at ISO 1600

Data acquired 12.5 NE of downtown Los Angeles.

Captured with Nebulosity, guided with PHD.
calibrated with bad-pixle maps and stacked in Nebulosity, post processed with PS5, Carboni tools, GradientXterminator and Noise Ninja

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