The Veil Nebula, consisting of the Eastern Veil, Pickering's Triangle, Witch’s Broom (CYG) - leftovers of a cosmic blast from the past
Summer nights are short and not astronomically dark, but in spite of that I captured about 8h on the Veil Nebula region in Cygnus. Little over a year ago, when I first started again with astrophotography, it was one of the first images I tried to captured with my small RedCat scope.
Although my principle is to go for diversity, I thought it was worthwhile to re-visit this DSO, and see what one year of learning would bring, together with an 8 hour run of data over 5 nights
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, a
supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source
supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the
Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than
Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime.
TS94, ASI2600MC
L-Enhance 165x 180s = 8hrs 15min
20220627-20220704
One year of experience has helped, but it is also putting my reach for quality even higher. A couple of flaws in the image, caused by artefacts in the camera-sensor. But I’m happy with the level of detail and smoothness in the image. I guess 1 year and 8 hours is paying off
Clear Skies everybody! 🤩✨🔭
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