This is the eastern part of the Veil Nebula complex. I photographed it in the wee hours this morning (05/26/22) using the 130mm astrograph equipped with a quad, narrow-band filter. I was hoping to get the entire complex in the frame, but alas this supernova’s remnant spans too great an area to fit into a full-frame DSLR image. So, I’ll have to photograph the Western part of the nebula, NGC 6960 another day.

Below are two frames. The first is a cropped field of NGC 6992. It’s the same nebula that appears in my current FB profile picture as the background. However, the profile picture was taken from a dark site in Beeville, Texas using an 80mm widefield astrograph. It shows many more stars because the site was dark, but the colors of the nebula are washed out. The second image here is the full 130mm astrographic field. The base image is the composite of 10, 6-minute frames.

NGC 6992, the Eastern Veil, from my light-polluted backyard
The Widefield view of the Eastern Veil Nebula
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2 Replies to “NGC 6992”

    1. Correct. The camera is a full-frame 35mm Canon 6D mark II connected to the Stellarvue 130SVS astrograph. It gives a huge field, but still not enough to cover the entire Veil Complex. 🙁

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