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The Eastern Veil (also known as Caldwell 33), whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as "Network Nebula" [11]) and IC 1340; and Pickering's Triangle (or Pickering's Triangular Wisp ), brightest at the north central edge of the loop, but visible in photographs continuing ...
The visual portion of the Cygnus Loop is known as the Veil Nebula, also called the Cirrus Nebula or the Filamentary Nebula. Several components have separate names and identifiers, [2] [3] including the "Western Veil" or "Witch's Broom", the "Eastern Veil", and Pickering's Triangle.
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Pickering's Triangle. The filaments are also known as Williamina Fleming's Triangular Wisp [35] His awards and honors include: Pickering was the youngest person to be elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1873 when he was 26 years old. [36] [37] Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1867) [38]
No other astronomer ever confirmed Pickering's claim. Pickering attempted to compute an orbit, which showed a fairly high inclination (39.1° to the ecliptic), fairly large eccentricity (0.23) and a semi-major axis (1,457,000 kilometres (905,000 mi)) slightly less than that of Hyperion. The period was supposedly 20.85 days, with prograde motion.
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"Auguries of Innocence" is a poem by William Blake, from a notebook of his known as the Pickering Manuscript. [1] It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of Blake.
In the final episode of “Gaslit,” the Watergate hearings play in the background as socialite truth-teller Martha Mitchell languishes in the hospital, stricken with cancer and ridiculed as ...