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Veil Nebula (Draco62 RMod).jpg
This frames all the photogenic components of the bright Veil Nebula in Cygnus, a several-thousand-year-old supernova remnant, showing it set amid surrounding clouds of dark and yellowish interstellar dust.
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.
A small and distant spiral galaxy, NGC 7013, is at lower left, amid another faint wisp of nebulosity.
The field of view is 6.8° by 4.5°. North is up here.
Technical:
This is a stack of 21 x 5-minute exposures through the Founder Optics Draco 62 astrograph at its native f/4.8 focus (with its built-in flattener) and the filter-modified Canon R at ISO 800. No filter was employed here to isloate the nebula's red and green wavelengths (this was "natural colour") and the sky was somewhat murky from incoming smoke. So I was suprised this came out as well as it did. The field was near the zenith which helped. Taken from home September 8, 2024 as part of testing the Draco 62. 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.
A small and distant spiral galaxy, NGC 7013, is at lower left, amid another faint wisp of nebulosity.
The field of view is 6.8° by 4.5°. North is up here.
Technical:
This is a stack of 21 x 5-minute exposures through the Founder Optics Draco 62 astrograph at its native f/4.8 focus (with its built-in flattener) and the filter-modified Canon R at ISO 800. No filter was employed here to isloate the nebula's red and green wavelengths (this was "natural colour") and the sky was somewhat murky from incoming smoke. So I was suprised this came out as well as it did. The field was near the zenith which helped. Taken from home September 8, 2024 as part of testing the Draco 62. 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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