NGC6888- Astronomy and astrophotography CCD camera images



28/05/2005
Object name: NGC6888 Crescent nebula
Popular name: Crescent nebula
Object type: Bright Nebula
Magnitude: 10
Size: 18 13
Position angle: 0
Classification: EN
Apparent RA: 20 12 06.5 Apparent Dec: +38 21 18
Constellation: Cygnus

An experiment to see how long I could expose for! 3x10min exposures. Some RA wiggle is noticable, and some possible optical distortion in the lower right. This was taken in twilight - the nebula was only slightly brighter than the sky. My first impression was "what a lot of stars!". Some flat fielding could also be useful.

Captured in Artemiscapture. Stacked in Registax, co-registered and scaled in IRIS, finally processing in photoshop.

Exposure Details :

3x600s on 200mm @ F5 with ART429

Curdridge Observatory, Southampton,UK