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The Majestic Space Brain, also known as the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, Denis Peter
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The Majestic Space Brain, also known as the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888

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The Majestic Space Brain, also known as the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, Denis Peter
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The Majestic Space Brain, also known as the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888

Revision title: NGC 6888, Crescent Nebula, reprocessed

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People call it the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, Caldwell 27 or by other names. For me it will forever be the majestic space brain.

The image is a combination of L-eNhance data for nebulosity and separate UV/IR cut filter data for stars.

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Title: NGC 6888, Crescent Nebula, reprocessed

Description: Took another shot at reprocessing it, this time with an updated workflow that now includes Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch, Narrowband Normalisation and HDR Multiscale Transform.

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The Majestic Space Brain, also known as the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, Denis Peter