Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 1340  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 6995
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NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula, Oliver Czernetz
NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula
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NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula

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NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula, Oliver Czernetz
NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula
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NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula

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NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.

Image Assembly and Processing: Oliver Czernetz.

Software: Fits Liberator, Photoshop CS5.

Data from the POSS-II Survey (R,B; Green synthesized from R+B).

(The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.)

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NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil Nebula, Oliver Czernetz