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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  1. […] with swan heart (Sadr), and then it had moved on to swan’s leg (North America), its wing (Veil) and now its throat, Crescent. Sadr was the first nebula with our narrow band filters simply […]


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