{"id":794,"date":"2019-04-10T21:05:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T21:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/?p=794"},"modified":"2019-04-10T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T21:05:44","slug":"veil-nebula-in-cygnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Veil Nebula in Cygnus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.<br>A supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, which exploded around 8,000 years ago. The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but  data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Veil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Veil.jpg 998w, https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Veil-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Veil-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Veil-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Veil-400x301.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just taken with R,G,B Filters a stack of 3 x 400sec images for each filter. Darks and Flats from the current library.  Taken from Selsey with the RC Astrograph and Starlight Xpress H694 camera at -12c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.A supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, which exploded around 8,000 years ago. The distance to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}