Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6960  ·  The star 52Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
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NGC 6960 Western Veil, Alf Jacob Nilsen
NGC 6960 Western Veil
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NGC 6960 Western Veil, Alf Jacob Nilsen
NGC 6960 Western Veil
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I am constantly returning to Veil- and Network Nebula  when the season starts here in south-western Norway. I wondered what the humans thought when they saw the supernova explosion creating this beautiful nebula happening some 10 000 years ago?

In this image, taken with the fabulous RASA f2 astrograph, I have used IDAS LP-filter for the RGB portion and IDAS NBZ-dual band filter for the Ha/OIII-portion.  The NB-portions were later extracted and isolated by the use of Astro Pixel Processor (APP) that has a neat  algorith for doing this.  I the combined the channels in PI's NBRGB-script letting RGB be the reference image and adding Ha to the red channel and OII to the blue and green channel.

Comments are always welcome!  Enjoy...
AJ

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NGC 6960 Western Veil, Alf Jacob Nilsen