Locomotoring

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More chaos overhead – Veil Nebula

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Veil nebula is close to the the swan’s wing.
About 9 hours of oxygen and 6.5 hours of hydrogen alpha. Each sub is 5 minutes. Bulk of the photography was done mid August. The palette is HOO.

Veil is a supernova remnant – a star, 20 times larger than our sun, exploded. Went boom about 10-20,000 years ago. The structure is so large that six moons can fit in. There are a number of named substructures within it – the Eastern Veil (the bat nebula), the Western veil (the witch’s broom) and the Pickering’s Triangle. My mom thought it looked like an open mouth. I could imagine an angler fish with its antennae (bat nebula) and a large mouth (the central veil).

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September 3, 2026 at 6:59 am

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