Western Veil Nebula

We astronomers are used to time travel, imagine if you could travel back, way back say 8000 years or so. You would have been witness to the supernova that created the Veil Nebula. A new star in that night sky would have been brighter than any other and visible for months. Fast forward to today and we see the remnant of that stellar explosion still moving at over a million miles an hour through space. This is not a true colour image but a bi colour capturing emissions of Hydrogen & Oxygen wavelengths..... This is My first Bi-colour project and a wonderful target it is too.

Photo Details

• Total Exposure: 4 Hours, 57 Minutes (64 Frames) 30x 3Mins Ha 54x 3 mins Oiii
• Image Acquisition: ZWO ASIair Pro
• Calibration Frames: No Calibration
• Stacking and Calibration: DeepSkyStacker
• Processing: Adobe Photoshop 2020, Starnet ++ 
• Size: 2.26 x 1.38 deg 
• Pixel Scale: 1.41 arcsec/pixel

The Western Veil NGC 6960

     I have just had a thought as I sit here typing. How about bringing one of the names of the veil upto modern day times. Known as the witches broom. I will change it to Harry's Nimbus 3000. Good old Harry Potter.

      Not having a modified Canon I have limited sensitivity to the faint nebulosity that the western Veil displays. A revisit for sure with the UHC filter attatched. Last night was certainly the poorest night of the last 4 with a high dew point moisture was dripping from the outside of the dome.
Iso 1600 with 58 minutes of data has at least captured the wave like shape behind the naked eye star 52 Cygni.