Pickering’s Triangular Wisp

About Pickering’s Triangular Wisp

Popular Name Pickering’s Triangular Wisp
Catalogue Names Part of Veil Nebular, Part of NGC6992 and NGC6990
Constellation Cygnus
Distance (Light Years) 1450 LY
Photographic Information
Exposure 7,5 Hours, 4 Hrs Ha, 3.5 Hrs OII
Equipment QSI 630 SWG, Paramount MyT, Orion SSAG guider
Processing Pixinsight
Imaging Location Santa Clara, CA

Notes:

Pickering’s Wisp is one small section of the Veil Nebula, dim remnant of a supernova explosion that occurred around 6000 years ago. Despite its low surface brightness, the Veil Nebula complex arcs over 6 times the area of the full moon on the sky. The intricate, wispy filaments of hot gas glow deep red (hydrogen) and blue-green (oxygen). The full nebula extends about 100 lightyears across.

This image was our first narrowband image, taken over 3 nights in our backyard. It uses H-alpha as the red channel and mixes O-III between the blue and green channels to achieve the most lifelike and natural look possible for a narrowband image.

Comments

  • Devaki Dikshit December 26, 2016

    Woww it should be called a flag, not a wisp 😀 This one’s incredible guys

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