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NGC 6960 Veil Nebula Complex (AT90CFT RMod).jpg
The Veil Nebula complex in Cygnus, aka the Cygnus Loop or Cirrus Nebula. This is a remnant of a supernova explosion that occured 5000 to 8000 years ago. It features a mix of red hydrogen-alpha and cyan oxygen III emission for a colourful complex of lacy filaments. The components have the catalogue numbers of NGC 6992-5 (eastern component at left) and NGC 6960 (western component at right, through the star 52 Cygni), and NGC 6974 for the middle area at top called Pickering's Triangle.
The region is on the boundary of a dark dust cloud obscuring stars to the right of the frame and yellowing the sky background there.
This is a blend of 10 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 3200 through an IDAS NBX dual narrowband filter to bring out the nebulosity, with a stack of 14 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 800 with no filter for the natural star colours and sky backgrpound, the latter set taken over two nights. All were with the filter-modified Canon R from AstroGear, on the Astronomics Astro-Tech 90CFT apo refractor with its reducer for f/4.8. All stacked, aligned and blended in Photoshop. Luminosity masks, Nebula Filter and Dark Details actions with PhotoKemi Tools, and a ProContrast filter with Nik Collection 6 ColorEFX helped enhance the nebulosity.
Taken from home in mid-May 2023 on the short nights and limited time between when this area reached high enough altitude to be worth shooting and the onset of dawn twilight.
The region is on the boundary of a dark dust cloud obscuring stars to the right of the frame and yellowing the sky background there.
This is a blend of 10 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 3200 through an IDAS NBX dual narrowband filter to bring out the nebulosity, with a stack of 14 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 800 with no filter for the natural star colours and sky backgrpound, the latter set taken over two nights. All were with the filter-modified Canon R from AstroGear, on the Astronomics Astro-Tech 90CFT apo refractor with its reducer for f/4.8. All stacked, aligned and blended in Photoshop. Luminosity masks, Nebula Filter and Dark Details actions with PhotoKemi Tools, and a ProContrast filter with Nik Collection 6 ColorEFX helped enhance the nebulosity.
Taken from home in mid-May 2023 on the short nights and limited time between when this area reached high enough altitude to be worth shooting and the onset of dawn twilight.
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