NGC6888: The Crescent Nebula Rave Edition

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A close-up of the Crescent Nebula. NGC6888 is the expanding shell of an ancient supernova with supercharged dust particles that glow from the energy of nearby stars.
Telescope:   Celestron EdgeHD 9.25
Length:   2350mm
Aperture:   235mm
F-stop:   f/10.0
Sessions:   2
Captured:   2022-06-23 to 2022-07-08
Lights:   94
Exposure:   120
Total exposure:   3 h
Ra:   20h 12m 6.0s
Dec:   +38° 20' 32.56
Size:   18.979 x 22.311 arcmin
Radius:   0.244 deg
Scale:   0.202 arcsec/pixel
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Fourth time is the charm? Another attempt to image this bright but complex nebula that looks like a red brain wrapped in blue gel.
The vastness of space displaced in the space / Of a nebulous brain with an invisible face / Both explosion and implosion as the stellar winds blow / From a Wolf-Rayet star with a nuclear glow / Its membrane stretched thin: what will the fate / Be of this structure named NGC6 triple-8?
The Crescent Nebula is formed by the interaction of stellar winds around a red giant.
This is a long focal length (1645mm) capture of the Crescent Nebula using a narrowband filter to enhace the detail.
I usually image NGC6888 at a high focal length for a closeup view. This nebula that is apparently fashioned after the human brain is itself located against a backdrop of faint nebulosity. 2 hours is probably not even close to enough total exposure time for best results, but here's the Crescent Nebula so far...
A wide field shot of the Crescent nebula.

Objects in frame:

Crescent Nebula NGC6888
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