Western Veil Nebula (NGC 6960)
The Veil Nebula complex, NGC 6992/95 (Estern Veil), Pickering’s Triangle and NGC 6960 (Western Veil) are remnants of a single supernova explosion about 15’000 years ago. The whole objects spans some 3° of summer sky in the constellation of Cygnus. The nebula was discovered by William Herschel 1784.
This image shows the Western Veil and is a composite of RGB and Ha/OIII data. The bright star is 4.2 mag 52 Cygni, an unrelated foreground star.
[description from wikipedia]
Details
Telescope:
RCOS 14.5″ f/8
Mount:
ASA DDM85
Camera:
Apogee U16M
Filters:
Astrodon Gen2
Exposure:
HaOIIIRGB 360:360:200:200:200 min.
Location:
ROSA Remote Observatories Southern Alps
Author:
© Martin Rusterholz, Astrophotographer
Hello, my name is Martin Rusterholz. I’m a Swiss amateur astrophotographer living near Zurich, the biggest town in Switzerland. My interest in astronomy started when I was 16. At that time, I built my first Newtonian telescope and mount. I studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) which was the only study including at least some aspects of astronomy and astrophysics.
“Looking at the nights sky is an experience touching everybody deeply inside, something common to all human beings independent to the language spoken by the individuals”.
Deep-sky astrophotography is my passion. 