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Crescent Nebula (Caldwell27) captured by David Rousseau from an urban location in Québec, Canada using Ha and OIII narrowband filters. The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1792. [2]
English: An image of the emission nebula NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, in the constellation Cygnus. This object is approximately 5000 light years distant and 26 light years in diameter and is formed by high velocity stellar wind from the central star WR 136 colliding with gas previously shed from the star.
English: Crescent Nebula bi-color H-alpha and OIII. Imaged with a 715mm focal length telescope and a cooled mono astronomic camera. The hydrogen gas is red. The oxygen layer of gas is very clear in this image.
Image Type Distance (1000 ly) Constellation Apparent magnitude; C1 NGC 188: Polarissima Cluster: Open Cluster: 4.8 Cepheus: 8.1 C2 NGC 40: Bow-Tie Nebula: Planetary Nebula: 3.5 Cepheus: 11 C3 NGC 4236 Barred Spiral Galaxy: 7,000 Draco: 9.7 C4 NGC 7023: Iris Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 1.4 Cepheus: 7 C5 IC 342: Hidden Galaxy [7] Spiral ...
The Sadr Region (also known as IC 1318 or the Gamma Cygni Nebula) is the diffuse emission nebula surrounding Sadr at the center of Cygnus's cross. The Sadr Region is one of the surrounding nebulous regions; others include the Butterfly Nebula and the Crescent Nebula. It contains many dark nebulae in addition to the emission diffuse nebulae.
The "Soap bubble nebula" (PN G75.5+1.7), near the Crescent nebula, was discovered on a digital image by Dave Jurasevich in 2007. In 2011, Austrian amateur Matthias Kronberger discovered a planetary nebula ( Kronberger 61 , now nicknamed "The Soccer Ball") on old survey photos, confirmed recently in images by the Gemini Observatory; both of ...
It is in the center of the Crescent Nebula. Its age is estimated to be around 4.7 million years and it is nearing the end of its life. Within a few hundred thousand years, it is expected to explode as a supernova. [8] According to recent estimations, WR 136 is 600,000 times brighter than the Sun, 21 times more massive, and 5.1 times larger.
NGC 6866 is an open cluster in the constellation Cygnus.It was discovered by Caroline Herschel on 23 July 1783.. Map showing location of NGC 6866. NGC 6866 is located in what was the field of view of the Kepler spacecraft.