NGC6988 (The Crescent Nebula) OSC from the balcony :) (Stanislav Yanakiev)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: Crescent Nebula · HD192003 · HD192163 · HD192182 · HD192361 · NGC 6888 · Sh2-105

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NGC6988 (The Crescent Nebula) OSC from the balcony :)

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NGC6988 (The Crescent Nebula) OSC from the balcony :)

Well, the Player One Uranus-C planetary camera is no more, due to my gear suitcase being stolen on the 15th of April. But in the few months I've had it, I learned so much!!

The Crescent nebula (NGC6888).

Now that I got the chance to process the data I gathered over 4 days at the end of March(technical details at the end), I am simply stunned at just what you can achieve in this hobby with "inappropriate" gear!! I mean, all subs were taken with a friggin' uncooled planetary cam. From MY BALCONY where North is pointing at the wall, my polar alignment can only be done through drift align/TPPA in NINA, at a non-ideal part of the sky...with a so-so collimated Newtonian...and I started with amateur astronomy 6 months ago. I barely know Pixinsight...

And space is huge...I sit on that same balcony now, planning my next endeavours, once I manage to reassemble a working rig.

Got a few more images to post from the IMX585 while waiting for her properly cooled big brother to arrive. Alongside some other goodies.

Stay tuned and thank you for the support and all the inspiration by other much more talented amateur astronomers!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9793541
PixInsight job	9PVQ8EEET9RC6HYIMLRYXN8RV91CKJY3
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h12m04s.975
RA (top/left)	20h12m09s.275
RA (top/right)	20h10m51s.874
RA (bottom/right)	20h12m00s.887
RA (bottom/left)	20h13m18s.335

Dec (center)	+38°20′44″.15
Dec (top/left)	+38°37′02″.75
Dec (top/right)	+38°12′55″.63
Dec (bottom/right)	+38°04′23″.68
Dec (bottom/left)	+38°28′29″.98

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