Veil Nebula Close Up
Eastern Veil
Veil Nebula Full Field
Veil Nebula – Southeastern Knot
Western Veil – Wide View
Veil Nebula – Witches Broom
The Veil Nebula, an astrophotographers dream, is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.
It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop which is 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 our 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 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)
| Object | Veil Nebula |
| Link | https://www.shetzers.com/veil-nebula-ngc-6960/ |
| Wiki Link | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_Nebula |
| Hemisphere | Northern |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Other Names contained in image | NGC 6960 |
| Imaging telescopes or lenses | Takahashi FSQ -106ED4 |
| Imaging cameras | QHY268M |
| Mounts | Software Bisque Paramount MYT |
| Focal reducers | None |
| Software | Software Bisque The Sky X, N.I.N.A., PHD Lab PHD2, Viking, PixInsight, Photoshop, Lightroom, StarSpikes |
| Filters | Astrodon LRGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance 36mm unmounted. Chroma Technology Narrowband 3nm Ha, SII, OIII – 36mm Unmounted |
| Accessories | Moonlite NightCrawler 35 focuser, Maxdome II, Digital Loggers Pro Switch, Sky Alert Weather Station, Pegagsus Ultimate Powerbox v2, Starlight Xpress filter wheel. |
| Guiding Telescope or Lenses | Orion 60mm Guide Scope |
| Guiding Camera | ZWO ASI290MM Mini |
| Imaging Dates | 6/16/22,7/8/22,7/9/22,8/17/22,8/18/22,8/23/22,8/24/22,8/29/22,8/30/22,8/31/22,9/1/22,9/2/22,9/3/22,9/4/22,9/5/22 |
| Frames | 2 Panels Panel 1 Red: 8×180″ (0.24h) Gain 25, Photographic Mode, Temp -10C, Bin 1×1 Green: 10×180″ (0.5h) Gain 25, Photographic Mode, Temp -10C, Bin 1×1 Blue:10×180″ (0.5h) Gain 25, Photographic Mode, Temp -10C, Bin 1×1 Ha: 66×600″ (11.0h) Gain 60, High Gain Mode, Temp -10C, Bin 1×1 OII: 47×600″ (7.8h) Gain 60, High Gain Mode, Temp -10C, Bin 1×1 Panel 2 |
| Integration | 38h 45m |
| Darks | 50 |
| Flats | 20 per Filter |
| Flat Darks | 40 |
| Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: | 2 |
| RA center | 311.88691 |
| DEC center | 30.86446 |
| Pixel scale | 3.76 |
| Resolution | 6280 x 4210 |
| Locations | Sirus 3.5m Observatory, Carbondale Colorado |
| Data source | Backyard |
| Seeing | Average |
| Post Processing Techniques | PixInsight to Photoshop to Lightroom |
| Median FWHM Pixels | R 2.194, G 2.129, B 2.313, H 2.289, O 2.146 |