Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent nebula  ·  NGC 6888
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Crescent Nebula in RGB, David McClain
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Crescent Nebula in RGB

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Crescent Nebula in RGB, David McClain
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Crescent Nebula in RGB

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Just to the West of that crazy Emu lies this gem. All subs were unguided.

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New data, now guided 14x300s using differential flexure compensation for the HyperStar C8, and using advanced methods for field star mitigation.

The spongy appearance of the surrounding background regsions is not nebular features, but rather a bubble foam structure to the distribution of faint field stars (tons of them!). This is very reminiscent of the bubble foam structure seen at large scales for the distribution of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and galaxy superclusters. Nature provides us with fractal forms everywhere.

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Whole new approach, using super-pixel deBayering, drizzled integration, synthetic luminance, linear space field star erosion, and then stretching to nonlinear space.

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