Capturing the Crescent Nebula | My Best Image Ever

In this video I capture the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, with fellow YouTubers Russell from Russell's Astrophotography and Glenn from Astrobloke. The Crescent Nebula has always been a hard target for me in the past to get right and together we get 30 hours of total data to process into an image.

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[Astrobloke]

What a blast that was and our image is just the best. Always a pleasure Joe.

[RussellsAstrophotography]

Love the video Joe, thanks again for asking me to be a part of this collaboration. I had a great time and I'm thrilled with the final image 👍

[rudibarani]

Absolutely fantastic image. Really like the collaboration initiative. 👏

[lukomatico]

Very nice image you guys! - really pleased for you with that quality result, worth the effort! :)

[dovber]

Outstanding final image Joe! What a great collaboration

[SimonsAstro]

Brilliant collaboration Joe, good to see you working with Glenn & Russell. The final image is awesome, got to be one one the best crescent images out there!! Well worth the effort👍

[DavesAstrophotography]

I've just noticed the 3 of you got an APOD for this, absolutely amazing, congratulations!

[DSOImager]

Nice job! Looked like a fun collab. That image looks very clean.. lots of data and good processing did the trick. I've in the middle of collecting data on the crescent.. hoping it comes out half as good as this one :)

[dalilama]

Absolutely awesome image and collaboration Joe, Russell, and Glen! Congrats!

[ChucksAstrophotography]

Congrats Joe, I see what's going to happen tomorrow! Update: Now it's official, APOD - AWESOME!

[michaelasbury]

You should definitely submit that to APOD. Great picture!

[lazy]

Working on this object right now! I got 12 hours down out of 20 that I want and I stumbled here while waiting for my data to finish stacking, awesome work!!!😊

[allanphillips]

Well done chaps fantastic image I wish my processing skills were as good as yours.

[deejaybustab]

This was very cool!!! & the final image is outstanding!!! I can’t wait till I get some clear nights on my end. Too many cloudy skies & I’m right in the city light pollution 😁 but I make it work lol thanks for sharing 👍🏽

[martrich]

Congratulations guys, awesome stuff! You've set the bar really high there, lots of image capture time, lots of processing time, and a wonderful final product, amazing.

[nickambrose]

Beautiful. The OIII is awesome. Love the collabs!!!

[astrocatinfo]

Absolutely stunning image! Congrats Joe 🙌🏽

[andyweeks]

Congratulations on the APOD guys!!!! That is awesome!

[davidf]

Great video Joe -well done with the Crescent Nebula! I've got the same rig as you and getting the OIII to come out in Post, is always a challenge with this nebula. Hope you have more clear skies!

[spacefrenz]

Excellent final image Joe! I'd love to be a part of one of these projects in the future if possible!