NGC 6888
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- Object Information:
- NGC 6888, The Crescent Nebula
- The Crescent Nebula is an emission nebula which is believed to have been formed from the stellar wind from the bright Wolf-Rayet near the center of the nebula that is presently colliding with slower moving stellar material from the same star ejected during an earlier red giant phase.
- Imaged at:
- Mt. Laguna, San Diego County, California.
- Equipment:
- Optics - Takahashi Epsilon 160 f/3.3
- Mount - Astro-Physics 1200 GTO,
- Camera - Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) ST-2000XM,
- Exposure Information:
- June 5, 2005,
- An RGB image with 36 minutes per color channel.
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