In 2022, my image of NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula was shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. In this article I hope to give you an idea of how the image was created.
The first step with any astrophoto is to collect the data. This stage is crucial because the quality of the starting data will determine how good the finished image is; 45 hours of very high-quality data was collected for this image. Once collected,
