The Witch's Broom (NGC 6960)

Posted by buc240
on Tuesday, August 17, 2010

by Jason Cottle

 

This image contains NGC 6960 the western portion of the Veil Nebula complex, and is commonly known as the Witch's Broom nebula, this is an expanding wave of gas from a Super Nova Remnant, and is located just below Cygnus, the image was captured using an AT8IN imaging optimized Newtonian Reflector OTA with a TEC/spectral modified Canon 350xt camera, mounted on an Atlas EQ-G and was autoguided for the 23x360 sec iso 800 exposures using a piggyback configured 80mm EDflouro refractor, with a DSI camera attached sending signals for correction using PHD software, the data was then calibrated and processed

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