Veil Nebula NGC 6960, 08/17/2001 1:35 AM Latitude: 44˚ 17’ 56” N Longitude: -120˚ 08’ 30” W 5,030 ft. Oregon Star Party 45 mi. E. Prineville , OR . Seeing: E Transparency: 7; Bortle: 1 SQM: 21.96. Telescopes / Optics: Tokina 300mm f/2.8 Mount : Losmandy G11 C-11 Piggyback. Camera: Canon F1 Exposure: 16 min. FOV: 6º 49’ 48” x 4º 33’ 0” Filter: UV Information: Manually guide through Celestron 11” SCT, Film camera piggyback. Used “bright screen” and canon angle finder to focus on nearby star. Elite Chrome 200 slide, film push process at Photo Oregon. Slide # 19 scanned, 4 iterations with Nikon 5000 LED film scanner. Processed using Photoshop and CCDStack
Veil Nebula NGC 6960 found in The constellation Cygnus ruminants of supernova 10 to 20 thousand years age. The Veil Nebula is 2,400 light years away would have been as bright as Venus during crescent stage, magnitude -4.92. 20 times more mass than our sun. Filament with Bright star is NGC 6960 also called “Witch’s Broom” near 52 Cygni magnitude of 4.2, Western Veil. Eastern Veil’s bright area is referred to as NGC 6992 trailing off into NGC 6995 known as the “Network Nebula”