Astrophoto: Western Veil Nebula by Fabio Bortoli
Western Veil Nebula. Credit: Fabio Bortoli
Fabio Bortoli captured this photo of Western Veil Nebula, also known as NGC 6960 from Bogli, Italy on July 30th, 2011.
Western Veil is a bright emission and/or reflection nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) estimated its distance to be around 1,470 light-years.
Wondering how Fabio got this photo? Fabio also provided us with the equipment specs he implemented.
“I tried many times to realize a nice shot, but only the good sky condition during night of July 30th allowed to gather enough signal to reveal all the faint and complex filaments of NGC 6960.
I used a modified Canon 350D attached to Televue NP101is refractor, on top of a german equatorial mount.
I merged 12 shots with 5 min exposition @ ISO1600.”
Check out Fabio’s Flickr photostream here.
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