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NGC 6960 & NGC 6992 - the veil nebula

This faint supernova remnant is in the constellation of Cygnus. It has two main parts.

NGC 6960 runs past the star 52 Cygni:

The western part of the veil nebula

Canon EOS5DMkII 254mm Newtonian @ 1200mm 67 x 10s f/4.8 ISO12800 2009-9-26 21:26:27-21:43:53 BST

The other part, NGC 6992, is harder to find because there is no bright star to help.

The eastern part of the veil nebula

Canon EOS5DMkII 254mm Newtonian @ 1200mm 65 x 10s f/4.8 ISO12800 2009-9-26 21:54:36-22:11:11 BST

Note that I took these photos without any filters because I wanted to see how my Canon SLR would render the colour. Photos of the veil nebula in books often make it look red but I guess that is because the colour has mainly been captured through a filter for one of the hydrogen lines.

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