Pick­er­ing’s Tri­angle in Cygnus

Pick­er­ing’s Tri­angle is the middle part of the Cygnus Loop, a super­nova rem­nant with an age of about 15’000 years. It is much faint­er than NGC 6992 (East­ern Part) and NGC 6960 (West­ern Part) and has no NGC num­ber assigned. It was dis­coverd by Wil­li­am­ina Flem­ing but cred­ited to Edward Pick­er­ing, the dir­ect­or of her observatory.

The image is a com­bin­a­tion of nar­row­band data (Ha and OIII) and col­or data. North is up in this image.

[descrip­tion from wikipedia]

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Find­er Chart Pick­er­ing’s Tri­angle in Cygnus

Image cre­ated by Skychart

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