Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  28 Cyg  ·  29 Cyg  ·  34 Cyg)  ·  Crescent Nebula  ·  IC 4996  ·  NGC 6888  ·  Permanent nova (P Cyg  ·  The star 25 Cyg  ·  The star 36 Cyg  ·  The star Revenant of the Swan  ·  The star b2 Cyg  ·  The star b3 Cyg
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Crescent Nebula Widefield, jprejean
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Crescent Nebula Widefield

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Crescent Nebula Widefield

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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A widefield view of the Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105), an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth.
It is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 (HD 192163) colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago.
Processed from FITS subframes from Telescope Live using PixInsight and Photoshop.
Captured at IC Astronomy Observatory, Oria, Almería, Spain

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Crescent Nebula Widefield, jprejean