Veil Nebula & Pickering's Triangle (David Schlaudt)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: Filamentary nebula · IC 1340 · Lace-work nebula · NGC 6960 · NGC 6992 · NGC 6995 · Network nebula · The star 52Cyg · Veil nebula

Veil Nebula & Pickering's Triangle, David Schlaudt

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Veil Nebula & Pickering's Triangle

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Veil Nebula & Pickering's Triangle

Here is my composite image of the Veil Nebula in Ha and OIII. I previously imaged the Eastern and Western portions of the Veil Nebula separately and have put in several imaging sessions during July and August to capture the gaps in those two images to create a complete view of the Nebula. This image is a mosaic of 6 different frames and is my first mosaic astrophotography image. There was definitely a learning curve for me in building it. The added challenge of ensuring the data gathered over many different nights was both consistent and fit together correctly turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated going in. But that challenge is one of the things I love about astrophotography… there’s always something new to learn.

The Veil Nebula is 110 light years across and in it’s entirety covers an area of the Earth’s sky equivalent to 6 full moons. After working on this project I can attest to the nebula's huge apparent size in our night sky. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion 8 thousand years ago and in this image you can see the spherical shape the nebula takes on as it continues to expand out from the point of that explosion.

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