NGC6992

"Network Nebula or Eastern Veil Nebula"

Constellation- Cygnus

 

 

Right Ascension: 20h 56m 38 s

Declination: +31° 43' 58"

Distance: ~1500 light years

Visual Brightness: - mag

Apparent Dimension: 60 arc minutes

 

 

Image information-

Date taken-June 5, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Tak FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, autoguided on a NexStar11 GPS with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations-  LRGB, L = 6x600 seconds binned 1x1, RGB = 6x300 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned in CCDSoft Ver 5.0, color combined in Astroart 2.0, levels and sharpening in Photoshop CS