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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]
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 Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop or the Witch's Broom Nebula, is a large, relatively faint Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop or the Witch's Broom
η Carinae (Eta Carinae, abbreviated to η Car), formerly known as η Argus, is a stellar system containing at least two stars with a combined luminosity greater than five million times that of the Sun, located around 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) distant in the constellation Carina.