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Veil Nebula (FOT86 RMod).jpg
This frames all the photogenic components of the bright Veil Nebula in Cygnus, a several-thousand-year-old supernova remnant.
The arc at left is the Eastern Veil or the Witch's Broom, but is officially NGC 6992-5. The arc at right passing through the star 52 Cygni is the Western Veil, or NGC 6960, but is also callled the Lacework Nebula or the Network Nebula. The main segment at top centre between the two arcs is NGC 6979, aka Pickering's or Fleming's Triangle, or variously Fleming's Triangular Wisp, for Williamina Fleming who discovered it photographically.
However, the field is filled with all manner of tiny, intricate, and sometimes razor thin wispy bits!
The field of view is 3.6° by 2.4°.
Technical:
This is a stack of 20 x 6-minute exposures through the Founder Optics FOT 86mm apochromatic refractor with its included but separate 1x field flattener at its native f/6.5 focus, and the filter-modified Canon R at ISO 1600. No filter was employed here to isloate the nebula's red and green wavelengths (this was "natural colour"). Taken from home September 6, 2024 as part of testing the Founder Optics gear. Autoguided and dithered on the AP Mach1 mount with the Lacerta MGEN 3 guider.
Nebulosity enhanced with PhotoKemi actions and Nik Color EFX Detail Extractor and a mild applicaiton of Classical Soft Focus for a glow effect.
The arc at left is the Eastern Veil or the Witch's Broom, but is officially NGC 6992-5. The arc at right passing through the star 52 Cygni is the Western Veil, or NGC 6960, but is also callled the Lacework Nebula or the Network Nebula. The main segment at top centre between the two arcs is NGC 6979, aka Pickering's or Fleming's Triangle, or variously Fleming's Triangular Wisp, for Williamina Fleming who discovered it photographically.
However, the field is filled with all manner of tiny, intricate, and sometimes razor thin wispy bits!
The field of view is 3.6° by 2.4°.
Technical:
This is a stack of 20 x 6-minute exposures through the Founder Optics FOT 86mm apochromatic refractor with its included but separate 1x field flattener at its native f/6.5 focus, and the filter-modified Canon R at ISO 1600. No filter was employed here to isloate the nebula's red and green wavelengths (this was "natural colour"). Taken from home September 6, 2024 as part of testing the Founder Optics gear. Autoguided and dithered on the AP Mach1 mount with the Lacerta MGEN 3 guider.
Nebulosity enhanced with PhotoKemi actions and Nik Color EFX Detail Extractor and a mild applicaiton of Classical Soft Focus for a glow effect.
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