NGC 6960 aka The Witch’s Broom Nebula is the western segment of the Great Cygnus Loop, the remnants of a supernova explosion estimated to have occurred 5,000 to 8,000 years ago. There are few directly visible supernova remnants but the Veil is one of the finest.
Notice the difference? For me you can’t really tell unless you really look at it and are really familiar with the DSO. Yes I flipped the color pallette HOO to OHH. 😅 I think it still looks pretty good! Not a drastic change considering there are only 2 colors seen in it. Anyways, it’s nice to experiment and see what works and what doesn’t. 👍✨😊
Imaged with 5 minute subs per narrowband filter and processed in OHH.
Total Integration: 4 hours
H - 24 x 300 sec
O - 24 x 300 sec
Bortle 6 Backyard
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
ZWO ASIAirPro
Explore Scientific ED127 Triplet
ZWO ASI1600mm cool
ZWO 30mm guidescope
ZWO ASI120mm-s guidecam
Orion 0.8x reducer flattener
Chroma 3nm Narrowband Filters
DSS,PS,Topaz
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All of the giant planets in our solar system have rings around them. Saturn might be the planet that we associate with rings, but Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have pretty sizable rings too. Astronomers learned about Jupiter’s rings back in the early 1600s, and since then it has been studied thoroughly. Jupiter's rings are very faint and made of dust and small pieces of rocks, not ice! ⠀⠀⠀⠀
In 1979, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered rings near Jupiter. They consist of very small dust grains (0.2-200 microns). These dust particles gradually fall into the atmosphere of Jupiter, and their place is taken by others that are formed when small satellites, especially Amalthea (Jupiter's moon), collide with meteorite bodies
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WR134 found in the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized hydrogen and oxygen gas. Embedded in the region's interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the complex, glowing arcs are sections of bubbles or shells of material swept up by the wind from Wolf-Rayet star WR 134, brightest star near the center of the frame. Distance estimates put WR 134 about 6,000 light-years away, making the frame over 50 light-years across. Shedding their outer envelopes in powerful stellar winds, massive Wolf-Rayet stars have burned through their nuclear fuel at a prodigious rate and end this final phase of massive star evolution in a spectacular supernova explosion. The stellar winds and final supernovae enrich the interstellar material with heavy elements to be incorporated in future generations of stars. - NASA APOD Description June 21 2012
Imaged with 10 minute subs per narrowband filter and processed in HOO.
Total Integration: 8 hours over 2 nights
H - 24 x 600 sec
O - 24 x 600 sec
Bortle 6 Backyard
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
ZWO ASIAirPro
ES ED127 Triplet with ZWO ASI1600mm cool (maincam)
ZWO 30mm guidescope
ZWO ASI120mm-s guidecam
Orion 0.8x Flattener/Reducer
Chroma 3nm Narrowband Filters
DSS,PS, Topaz
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