Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent Nebula  ·  NGC 6888
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Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit, reglogge
Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit
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Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit

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Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit

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About 6 hours of Ha and 10 hours of OIII from my Bortle 7 balcony in Munich. Tried a new workflow in Pixinsight and Affinity Photo implementing a few new things with noise reduction, star removal and color correction.

Calibration, registration, stacking, stretching and noise reduction done in Pixinsight, contrast and saturation adjustments done in Affinity Photo. I removed the stars with the StarXTerminator plugin and added a reduced version back into the image.

There are so many ways to the desired result!

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  • Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit, reglogge
    Original
  • Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit, reglogge
    B
  • Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit, reglogge
    C
  • Final
    Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit, reglogge
    D

B

Description: The starless version done with Russel Croman's awesome StarXterminator plugin.

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C

Description: And the original version as produced in Pixinsght

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D

Description: Added ~3h of OII data

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Crescent nebula (NGC6880) in HOO new edit, reglogge