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Eastern Veil Nebula - NGC 6992

The Eastern Veil Nebula is a part of the much larger Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant of a star 20 times the size of the Sun. It exploded 8000yrs ago and this cloud of ionized gas has been expanding ever since.

 

This image acquired through Ha (red) and OIII (blue) filters over a total integration time of 5.6hrs.

 

30 Ha and 38 OIII images (each 5min exposure length) stacked and processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom

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Uploaded on September 22, 2019