Western Veil Nebula- NGC 6960 - a photo on Flickriver

Western Veil Nebula- NGC 6960

            The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.
 
At the time of the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime! The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, and 36 times the area, of the full Moon).

The area of the nebula pictured here, also known as NGC 6960, is the “western” portion. At the top of the image is the filamentary segment often called the “Witch’s Broom”.
The image records narrowband signal from the 3 ionized gases: hydrogen alpha (red), hydrogen beta (blue), doubly ionized oxygen (teal).

Capture info:
Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town NM US
Telescope: Orion Optics UK AG14 (F3.8)
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Camera: SBIG STXL 16200
Data: H-alpha, H-beta, OIII: 6.5, 6, 7 hours respectively
Processing: Pixinsight

   

Taken on: April 26, 2024

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NGC 6960

Veil Nebula

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Witch's Broom nebula

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