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Pickerings Triangle

Pickerings Triangle

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Pickerings Triangle Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star.   This is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of shocked gas from the explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion reached Earth over 7500 years ago.  This is part of the western section of the veil nebula complex. The distance is approximately  about 1,470 light-years.

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Ha 20min

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Ha 340 min

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SII 20min

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SII 320min

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OIII 20min

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OIII 320min

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Scope              Planewave 17in

Camera            Apogee U16

Mount               Paramount ME

Filters               Astrodon  Ha5nm  OIII3nm   SII5nm

Exposures       Ha 5.6hrs    OIII 5.3hrs   SII 5.3hrs   20min subs   Total 16hrs

Location           Sierra Nevada Mountains CA.  Heavens Mirror Observatory  SRO       2013

 

 

 

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