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The West Veil Nebula

This is a deeper bicolor look at the delicate Veil nebula. Narrowband filters were used and it was shot during and around the full moon, the filters do an amazing job of blocking out unwanted light.

Eric Marlatt

The following was retrieved from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_Nebula on November 19, 2015

The Veil Nebula

"The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernova exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured several images of the nebula. The analysis of the emissions from the nebula indicate the presence of oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen. This is also one of the largest, brightest features in the x-ray sky.

September 24, 2015 new images and videos of the Veil Nebula were released, with an explanation of the images."

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