- Description: The veil nebula is an expanding shell of material created when a star, about
20x the size of our sun, died in a violent explosion around 10,000 years ago. This expanding debris is
located about 2400 light years from Earth. This image shows one edge of this expanding shell of
gasses. You can see the expanding shell pushing gasses and dust outward towards the top of the image,
leaving a clearing of bright white stars in its wake.
- Camera: SBIG STF-8300M at -20C
- Filters: Baader RGB filters
- Scope: Takahashi FSQ-106N refractor at f5
- Exposure: 6 x 10 minutes per colour
- Location: Southern Alberta Star Party S.E. of Medicine Hat, Alberta
- Date: September 14th, 2023
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