Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  52 Cyg  ·  LBN 191  ·  NGC 6960  ·  NGC 6974  ·  NGC 6979  ·  Sh2-103  ·  The star 52 Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
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NGC 6960 and NGC 6979 Western portion of Veil Nebula in Cygnus, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome
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NGC 6960 and NGC 6979 Western portion of Veil Nebula in Cygnus, in HaOO/RGB

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NGC 6960 and NGC 6979 Western portion of Veil Nebula in Cygnus, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome
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NGC 6960 and NGC 6979 Western portion of Veil Nebula in Cygnus, in HaOO/RGB

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Sometimes it's worth going after the classics, even if it's under light-polluted suburban skies.  It's been a few years since I soaked up a few photons from the Veil Nebula.  It's just as lovely as I remembered, with so much interesting detail on every scale.  I combined data from my L-eXtreme dual narrowband filter with unfiltered RGB data for natural star colors, and am quite pleased with the final result.

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NGC 6960 and NGC 6979 Western portion of Veil Nebula in Cygnus, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome