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NGC6260 - WESTERN VEIL NEBULA - LNBRGB - 202207, Massimo Marchini
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NGC6260 - WESTERN VEIL NEBULA - LNBRGB - 202207

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NGC6260 - WESTERN VEIL NEBULA - LNBRGB - 202207, Massimo Marchini
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NGC6260 - WESTERN VEIL NEBULA - LNBRGB - 202207

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://flic.kr/p/2oo9s5K

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Due to the bad weather, I’m re-elaborating some old work.
This picture is the compromise between the cropping and the selection of frames taken in 4 different sessions while trying to keep the SNR signal as high as possible. This is because there has been a significant field rotation and some of the luminance shoots were hard to assemble.
The Western Veil Nebula (or NGC6960 or Caldwell 34) is a part of the Cygnus loop, a large supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus; it is an emission nebula 2400 light years away from Earth.
The entire loop is 120 light years in diameter, and it has an apparent dimension of 3° in the sky (the Moon is about a half degree). The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the sun which exploded between 10.000 and 20.000 years ago.
NGC 6960 closes the loop on its western side. The Veil Nebula is expanding at a velocity of about 1.5 million km/h, and it’s supposed it will dissolve in a few thousand years.

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