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Date: 03/05/2019

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 Veil Nebula - NGC 6960 - Distance 1,470 Light Years - In the Constellation Cygnus. .

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 (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernova exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.

 

Location: Watson's Way Stacking Mode:  Mosaic
Camera: Canon 40D - LP Filter Removed Alignment Method:  Automatic
Optics: Sky Watcher ED80 Stacking Mode:  Mosaic
Exposure: 800ASA @  5 Minutes x 37 RGB BKG Cal:  Yes
Total Exposure:  3hr 5min Total   Per Channel Cal:  No
Guiding: DSI on Mead LX200R. Method:  Median Kappa-Sigma K=2/I=5
Filter: Darks:  Yes
Focus: Bahtinov Mask Flat:  No
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RA (J2000):     20h 45m 38s Levels, Colour Balance, Curves, Saturation Scaling, jpeg Conversion.
DEC (J2000):  +30d 42m 30s 
Constellation:  Cygnus
Distance: 1,470 Light Years