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The Western Veil (also known as Caldwell 34), consisting of NGC 6960 (the "Witch's Broom", [10] Lacework Nebula, [8] "Filamentary Nebula" [10]) near the foreground star 52 Cygni; 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 ...
NGC 6960, the Western Veil, is the western part of the remnant, also known as the "Witch's Broom", located at J2000 RA 20 h 45 m 58.1 s Dec +30° 35′ 43″. [3] As the westernmost NGC object in the nebula (first in right ascension), its number is sometimes used as an NGC identifier for the nebula as a whole.
6960: Western part of Veil Nebula 'Witch Broom' Diffuse nebula: Cygnus: 20 h 45 m 38.0 s +30° 42′ 30″ 6981: Messier 72 Globular cluster: Aquarius: 20 h 53 m 27.9 s: −12° 32′ 13″ 10.0 6992: Eastern part of the Veil Nebula 'Banana Nebula' Diffuse nebula: Cygnus: 20 h 57 m +31° 30′ 6994: Messier 73 Asterism [7] Aquarius: 20 h 59 m ...
52 Cygni with NGC 6960, part of the Veil Nebula. 52 Cygni is a giant star in the northern constellation of Cygnus with an apparent magnitude of 4.22. Based on its Hipparcos parallax, it is about 291 light-years (89 pc) away.
NGC 6992 (Eastern Veil Nebula – center) and NGC 6960 (Western Veil Nebula – upper right) photographed from a dark site. To the south of Epsilon Cygni is the Veil Nebula (NGC 6960, 6979, 6992, and 6995), a 5,000-year-old supernova remnant covering approximately 3 degrees of the sky - [66] it is over 50 light-years long. [4]
NGC 2000.0 (also known as the Complete New General Catalog and Index Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters) is a 1988 compilation of the NGC and IC made by Roger W. Sinnott, using the J2000.0 coordinates. [17] [18] It incorporates several corrections and errata made by astronomers over the years. [5]
The Veil Nebula in Cygnus comprises several NGC/IC items: 6960 (the Witch's Broom), 6992/6995/IC1340 (Eastern Veil), 6974 (faint patch near north boundary) -- and the one I'm asking about: NGC 6979.
The Sinbad location for NGC 6960 (and the labels on all the star atlases, including Uranometria) correspond to the Western Veil Nebula -- but the article (before I edited it) treated NGC 6960 as a designation for the entire loop. Is this a case of the 1st number in R.A. being applied to the whole?