Celestial Croissant (Will Niedbala)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: Crescent nebula · NGC 6888

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Celestial Croissant

Been going through the stockpile of images from this summer and reminiscing. This is probably my favorite composition, and is by far the longest I've spent on a single object. When I started shooting the Crescent (and started doing astrophotography in general), the results were nowhere close to those I was seeing on here. Almost every clear night I was taking more and more subs to try and draw out the faintest details, and I processed and reprocessed the data until I'm sure I had carpal tunnel, all in an effort to emulate the images I saw others posting. It's a funny thing because I still find myself wanting to go back and do more to it - in my mind this is not at all a finished image - but it's important to take a step back and appreciate the growth.

My favorite part of this is the faint blue halo surrounding the main crescent shape. It was originally something I thought could only be seen through a narrow-band filter, and seeing it for the first time in an image I had taken was special.

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