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Monday, July 21, 2014

Veil Nebula (NGC 6960 - Western veil)

The image below consists only of 10 subframes x 300seconds but were taken at a site with very dark skies.
Imaging scope was GSO Ritchey Chretien 8 inch and main camera was QHY8L.
Also 10 darks/10flats/100bias were used.
Stacked with DSS and processed only in Photoshop.. can't wait to process it in PixInsight :)

WIKI:
"The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.
The analysis of the emissions from the nebula indicate the presence of oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen. This is also one of the largest, brightest features in the x-ray sky.
The nebula was discovered on 1784 September 5 by William Herschel.

There are three main visual components:

The Western Veil (also known as Caldwell 34), consisting of NGC 6960 (the "Witch's Broom", "Finger of God",[5] or "Filamentary Nebula"[5]) near the foreground star 52 Cygni;
The Eastern Veil (also known as Caldwell 33), whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 and IC 1340; and
Pickering's Triangle (or Pickering's Triangular Wisp), brightest at the north central edge of the loop, but visible in photographs continuing toward the central area of the loop."

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