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2010/07/05 D.M.Conrad

Crescent Nebula / NGC 6888 / LBN203 Wide field

Sedro-Woolley, Wa.

Image center RA: 20h10m 49.7s DE:+38°09' 11"
Celestial North is up. Celestial east at left.
The Field of View is about 1 1/2 degrees by 2 1/4 degrees.
This nebula located in Cygnus is about 5,000 light years away.
Also visible in this frame are IC 4996 and Do 39, both open clusters in the lower left of the frame.
Basel 6 is another open cluster at the right side of the frame. Also there are areas of faint nebulosity and stellar dust throughout the image.

Hutech Canon 40D,Borg 100ED /W 0.85 Reducer
9 X 10min. exposures and stacked with Nebulosity.
Aligned and stacked with Nebulosity
Older Mountain Instruments MI-250 tangent arm mount.
Borg 77Ach guide scope with an Orion Starshoot autoguider using PHD guiding full exif


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