NGC 6888 • DE Sichelnebel in HaOIIIRGB

by Douglas J Struble

Equipment: Explore Scientific APO 165mm FPL-53 CF 3.0" FT, Explore Scientific ED APO 152mm f/8 FCD1 ED, Stellarvue SVX102T-R, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, ZWO ASI183MM Pro

Integration: 79h 55m 54s

I started doing astrophotography in 2016 and of course NGC 6888 (Crescent Nebula) was one of my first targets, as it is bright and pretty easy to do well. I decided to go really deep with integration time on it this time just to see how much fainter detail I could pull out. This will probably be the last time I attempt this object. The majority of integration was captured this year, but did add…