NGC 6960 | Western Veil Nebula From The Balcony With Secondary Spider Replacement (Peter Graf)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: NGC 6960 · The star 52 Cyg · Veil Nebula

NGC 6960 | Western Veil Nebula From The Balcony With Secondary Spider Replacement, Peter Graf

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NGC 6960 | Western Veil Nebula From The Balcony With Secondary Spider Replacement

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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NGC 6960 | Western Veil Nebula From The Balcony With Secondary Spider Replacement

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

The western veil nebula from the balcony, at least part of it. For the nebula and background I did use the Optolong L-eXtreme (narrowband), for the RGB stars the Optolong L-Pro (to fight the light pollution from the nearby parking lot). As I have installed a new CNC machined aluminium spider (from Backyard Universe) for the secondary mirror, this target - with a brighter star in the middle - was chosen first. Unfortunately, the entire witch's broom won't fit on it, but to see if the spikes have improved this is a worthwhile target. Compared to the stock spider of the 150PDS, which I never got straight, this looks far better.

From Wikipedia
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 the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, and 36 times the area, of the full Moon). While previous distance estimates have ranged from 1200 to 5800 light-years, a recent determination of 2400 light-years is based on direct astrometric measurements. (The distance estimates affect also the estimates of size and age.)

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