The East Veil: Alien in Disguise
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The thin, detailed fillaments that interwine to force a complex interplay of base colors are believed to be the surface of an expanding cloud seen edge-on. This is a massive target representing only a portion of the large Cygnus Loop, the remnants of the explosion of a star 20 times more massive than the sun around 15,000 years ago.
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Image details
| Telescope: | Svbony sv503 70ED | |
| Length: | 568mm | |
| Aperture: | 70mm | |
| F-stop: | f/8.8 | |
| Sessions: | 1 | |
| Captured: | 2022-11-16 to 2022-11-16 | |
| Lights: | 24 | |
| Exposure: | 300 | |
| Total exposure: | 2 h | |
| Ra: | 20h 51m 52.9s | |
| Dec: | +31° 20' 23.706 | |
| Size: | 156.179 x 106.095 arcmin | |
| Radius: | 1.573 deg | |
| Scale: | 1.778 arcsec/pixel |
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