Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6974  ·  NGC 6979
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NGC 6979 Fleming's Triangular Wisp and Pickering's Triangle (Veil Nebula) in HOO, Michael J. Mangieri
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NGC 6979 Fleming's Triangular Wisp and Pickering's Triangle (Veil Nebula) in HOO

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NGC 6979 Fleming's Triangular Wisp and Pickering's Triangle (Veil Nebula) in HOO, Michael J. Mangieri
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NGC 6979 Fleming's Triangular Wisp and Pickering's Triangle (Veil Nebula) in HOO

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This is the upper region of the Veil Nebula, capturing Fleming's Triangular Wisp (upper portion of the image) and Pickering's Triangle (the right side). The image was taken with Ha and Oiii NB filters, a Bi-Color rendition known as HOO - where the red color channel is assigned to the Hydrogen Alpha wavelength and the Green and Blue channels to the Oxygen wavelength.

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NGC 6979 Fleming's Triangular Wisp and Pickering's Triangle (Veil Nebula) in HOO, Michael J. Mangieri