By Ragini Chaturvedi | 2022-07-03
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On 07/02/2022 12:30 am by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
NGC 6960 (aka the Witch's Broom Nebula) in the constellation Cygnus is part of the Veil Nebula, which is the remnant of a star that went supernova about 10,000 years ago. NGC 6960 spans about 35 light years and is 1,400 light years from Earth.
WO RedCat51 refractor, ZWO ASI183MC camera with Optolong L-Pro filter, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount
30 4-minute lights plus calibration frames were stacked using DeepSkyStacker; other post-processing was with Siril, Photoshop CS2 plus Astronomy Tools plugin, StarNet++ and PhotoScape X
