Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6960  ·  The star 52Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
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NGC  6960  Witches Broom Nebula, Roger Menard
NGC  6960  Witches Broom Nebula
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NGC 6960 Witches Broom Nebula

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NGC  6960  Witches Broom Nebula, Roger Menard
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NGC 6960 Witches Broom Nebula

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NGC 6960 'The Witches Broom' nebula is a part of the expanding debris cloud of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant. It is a very large nebulous area so I sued a 90mm refractor with an F5.6 focal reducer to try and capture as much a possible.

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NGC  6960  Witches Broom Nebula, Roger Menard