Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent Nebula  ·  NGC 6888
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Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky, Andres Salaverria
Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky
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Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky

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Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky, Andres Salaverria
Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky
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Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky

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By accident more than by design I used two different filters in two different nights. I imaged the Crescent in night one with the L-pro for a straightforward RGB image. In night two I used the L-Ultimate double narrowband filter. And this gave me the opportunity to see the difference in the images. The first revision is the L-Pro, the second one the L-Ultimate and in the final image I combined both sets of subs. I used APP to combine the channels using the RGBHOO add-scale algorithm. I used a factor of 2 for the Ha channel and 1.442 for the OIII channel. Nothing scientific about these values: Trial and error to the aesthetics of the image. I am amazed that I managed to get some blue. You probably need good eyes to see it. Comments?

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  • Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky, Andres Salaverria
    Original
  • Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky, Andres Salaverria
    B
  • Final
    Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky, Andres Salaverria
    C

B

Title: Crescent - HA and OIII channels only

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Crescent in RGBHOO from Bortle 9 sky, Andres Salaverria