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Home » Gallery » Nebula » NGC 6979 Pickering's Triangle

 

Location/ Date:

Eggersdorf, GER /  12.+ 13.+ 17.+ 18.+ 22.+ 23. August 2017

Telescope/ Lens:

10“ f/4 TS ONTC Newton

Mount:

Celestron CGE GPS

Camera:

Atik 383L+

Exposure time

28x 1200"  Astronomik Ha 6nm

17x 1200" Astronomik [OIII] 6nm

17x 300"  Astronomik RGB each

Total exposure:

19,2 hours

Description:

The chaotic arranged filaments of glowing gas depicted here are part of the Veil nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. The Veil nebula is a remnant of a giant star explosion, visible as an expanding cloud that has been created during the explosion of a mass rich star. It is estimated that the light of this explosion has reached the Earth 5000 years ago which means, that the nebula lies in a distance of about 1500 light-years. In the meantime the whole nebula extends to about 70 light-years in diameter. The picture shown here displays about one third of it. Interstellar matter is moved by the gravitation waves caused by the explosion and thus stimulated to glow.

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