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Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6995, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)

Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6995

Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6995, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)

Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6995

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NGC 6995 28/08/2013 10 x 300 secs stacked in dss processed in pixinsight. Really surprised I got anything out of this data due to clouds only got to take two clear subs before the clouds rolled in then had to take 8 subs in misty conditions quite pleased with this considering the weather conditions.

Taken with a QHY8L a Skywatcher 200 pds with a Skywatcher coma corrector on a AZ EQ6-GT goto guided with a QHY5 in a finderguider.

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernova exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.

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Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6995, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)

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