Veil nebula

NGC 6960 is sometimes known as the Veil Nebula, sometimes as the Witches Broom, and sometimes as the Cirrus Nebula. This region is part of the Cygnus Loop

Giant star in the Veil Nebula-Vela Constellation Cropped close up mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

𝐍𝐆𝐂 𝟔𝟗𝟗𝟓: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚

My bi-color edit of the Western Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant packed with H-alpha and Oiii. This has been a fun project, a very difficult one to capture in narrowband, maybe someday I'll add RGB stars to the scene to give it a bit more pop. I'm happy with the detail I was able to extract given the relatively short integration time, both H-alpha and Oiii managed quite a bit of signal. Shot with an ASI183mm-Pro and WO GT81 on a Sirius EQ-G mount, all subs are at Gain 178 and offset 11, 5…

Advanced processing techniques brought out finer details of the nebula’s filaments and delicate threads of translucent ionized gas

This HD wallpaper is about red and blue galaxy, a supernova in the constellation Cygnus, Original wallpaper dimensions is 7144x2933px, file size is 3.08MB

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