{"id":2822,"date":"2023-09-23T20:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2023-09-23T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:28:19","slug":"ngc-6960-veil-nebula-witchs-broom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/?p=2822","title":{"rendered":"NGC 6960 Veil Nebula (Witch&#8217;s Broom)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1777\" src=\"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2823\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2560.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2560-2048x1422.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2560-768x533.jpg 768w, http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2560-1536x1066.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NGC 6960, also known as the Witch&#8217;s Broom, is part of the Veil Supernova Remnant in Cygnus, at a distance of 2,400 ly from Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This narrowband image is captured in the SHO Hubble palette, with [S II], H-alpha and [O III] emission assigned to RGB channels respectively. It was obtained with the A1 telescope installed at the Alnitak Remote Observatory in Nerpio, Spain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>0.43 m PlaneWave CDK17 f\/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham Telescope<\/li><li>Software Bisque Paramount ME German Equatorial Mount<\/li><li>Moravian Instruments C3-61000 Pro, Back-Illuminated CMOS Camera<\/li><li>Chroma 50 mm filters (5 nm narrowband)<\/li><li>FLI CenterLine CL-1-14 12+2-position Dual Color Filter Wheel<\/li><li>Optec Sagitta Off-Axis Guider with ASI174MM Guide Camera<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Acquisition software: DC-3 ACP, MaximDL Pro, TheSky X<br>Processing software: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, RC Astro BlurXTerminator and NoiseXTerminator, GIMP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGC 6960, also known as the Witch&#8217;s Broom, is part of the Veil Supernova Remnant in Cygnus, at a distance of 2,400 ly from Earth. This narrowband image is captured in the SHO Hubble palette, with [S II], H-alpha and [O III] emission assigned to RGB channels respectively. It was obtained with the A1 telescope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}