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The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888/Sharpless 105, Mike Dobres
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The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888/Sharpless 105

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The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888/Sharpless 105, Mike Dobres
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The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888/Sharpless 105

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An emission nebula in Cygnus, 5000 lights years from my orchard. This cosmic shell shape was formed  formed by the interaction of fast and slow moving stellar winds produced as the central Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136,  HD192163 ) became a red giant about a quarter of million years ago.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_136


20 minutes with a 92% moon, good transparency but  horrible seeing FWHM was all over the place, so pretty pleased with the result-  was able to pick up a good deal of the OIII emissions as well as the main HII regions-

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