- Description: NGC6888 - the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus. This picture is a digital composite. The original
colour image was taken with film and a dry-ice camera, a filtered CCD image was added to enhance detail. The original
CCD image can be seen here.
Film Image:
- Camera: Canda Technologies cold camera
- Filter: Lumicon Deep Sky
- Scope: 8" f6 Newtonian
- Film: Kodak Royal Gold 400
- Exposure: 45 minutes
- Location: near Caroline, Alberta
- Date: September 4, 1994
CCD Image:
- Camera: SBIG ST-8XE at -15C
- Filter: Schuler 10nm hydrogen-alpha
- Scope: Takahashi FSQ-106N
- Mount: Losmandy G-11
- Exposure: 3 x 30 minutes.
- Location: Mt. Kobau B.C.
- Date: August 2, 2005
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