06/07/2025
NGC 6960 / Bakuvians before the Veil Nebula (40.375504, 49.832425)
This image is a double exposure of Bakuvians in the underground passage by me and the Veil Nebula (NGC 6960) which was taken with the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Thus sharing the perspective of the city as I see it now - the citizens as silhouettes as if looking through them, the streets, the Earth, opening up a view of outer space. The Veil Nebula is part of a supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop. It is the shattered remains of one, and possibly two, supernovae that exploded more than 15,000 years ago at a distance of 2,500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. At the time of the explosion, it would have been seen as a very bright star, rivaling the crescent Moon. The bright star near the center of the image, known as 52 Cygnus, is not associated with the supernova. The color image was generated by combining data from narrowband filters; data from H-alpha was assigned a red color, [OIII] is blue, and [SII] is green. North is to the left and east is down. Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-veil-wiyn-0-9-m/ Position (ICRS) RA = 20h 44m 20.4s DEC = 30Β° 36β 26.0β Orientation North is 89.8Β° CCW Field of View 59.8 x 53.0 arc minutes Constellation CygnusCredit: T. A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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NGC 6960 / Bakuvians before the Veil Nebula (40.375504, 49.832425) by Emin Mathers