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Veil Nebula and NGC 6940 Cluster (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, and adjacent to the large star cluster at lower right, NGC 6940, over the border in Lacerta the Lizard.
The arc at upper left is the Eastern Veil or the Witch's Broom, but is officially NGC 6992-5. The arc to the 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 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.
The field of view is 8.2° by 5.5° at a focal length of about 240mm. North is up here.
Technical:
This is a stack of 20 x 6-minute exposures through the Founder Optics Draco 62 astrograph with its 0.83x Reducer for f/3.9 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"). Taken from home August 31, 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 upper left is the Eastern Veil or the Witch's Broom, but is officially NGC 6992-5. The arc to the 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 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.
The field of view is 8.2° by 5.5° at a focal length of about 240mm. North is up here.
Technical:
This is a stack of 20 x 6-minute exposures through the Founder Optics Draco 62 astrograph with its 0.83x Reducer for f/3.9 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"). Taken from home August 31, 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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