The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 Canon 6D (Jason Brown)

The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 Canon 6D

NGC 6888 The Crescent Nebula.

From my favourite autumn area of the sky.

This was my first image shot with my new IDAS NBX 2" filter. This filter as been a revelation to my images. It's very similar to the new Optolong L-Extreme. I took it over three nights. I was working on learning how to use my new auto-focuser and because of that I did dump a few frames.

Again, another image reworked in Photoshop. I kept looking at some amazing work on hear and it made me reassess my editing. I've put effort into bringing out the detail, whilst not over doing it. I did a lot of work on each channel individually and it allowed me to understand the image better and how it was made up. I've used StarNet++ again and I can't imagen doing processing without it now. It's been a game changer. That and all the PS practice is finally paying off.

This is old DATA and I have a Version on here already. I think the difference is obvious. I'm much happier. I just need to work on collecting more and better data and hopefully it will start to make the difference.

Any help or constructive criticism is welcome. Cheers.

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Distribution of astrophotographers

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	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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