Veil Nebula
Constellation Cygnus, RA 20h 46m Dec +30 45
RGB and Narrow Band image combined using Spectral Mapping
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The Veil Nebula
About this image:
(Text Credit Wikipedia) 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.[2]
This image is a mosaic of 4 panels in LRGB taken with a SBIG STL full frame camera and 6 panels of 3nm Narrow Band images taken with a QSI 583 camera on a Stellarvue SVS130 f5 refractor.
The narrow band data was merged with the LRGB data in PS CC using spectral mapping.
(Text Credit Wikipedia) 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.[2]
This image is a mosaic of 4 panels in LRGB taken with a SBIG STL full frame camera and 6 panels of 3nm Narrow Band images taken with a QSI 583 camera on a Stellarvue SVS130 f5 refractor.
The narrow band data was merged with the LRGB data in PS CC using spectral mapping.
Image Details
- Optics : Stellarvue SVS 130 6 element Refractor f5
- Mount: Paramount MYT
- Camera: SBIG STL 11K, QSI 583
- Filters: Custom Scientific LRGB, Astrodon 3nm Ha, OIII, SII
- Exposure: LRGBHaOIIISII 640:550:400:400:720:880:940 Total exposure time 75.5hrs over 24 nights
- Camera/Mount Control: The Sky X, CCD Auto Pilot 5
- Guiding: Unguided using ProTrack
- Processing: PixInsight 1.8 calibration, alignment, gradient removal and mosaic construction, PS CC spectral mapping of NB data into the RGB data
- Location: Stark Bayou Observatory, Ocean Springs, MS
- Date: 22Aug thru 10 Oct 15
