I got some photon time with my 10-inch Newtonian, last Friday. Most of the objects I observed were old friends but there was one guy I hadn't sketched before. That was Pickering's Wedge, the triangular nebulosity between the two major components of the Veil Nebula. NGC 6960 is the long lick of flame kissing 52 Cygni, a 4.2 magnitude star in eastern Cygnus. About 2.5 degrees to the east, the lacy arcing form of NGC 6992 is found. These are the major visible components of the Veil Nebula, an ancient supernova remnant. But there are more remnant nebulous patches to be seen in this area. Among these is Pickering's Wedge, also known as Pickering's Triangle or Fleming's Triangular Wisp. (Thanks to Tom Polakis for helping me with the identification.) According to Brian Skiff, this object was discovered by Williamina Fleming, one of E. C. Pickering's assistants at Harvard College, while she was studying a photographic plate of the region. Since it wasn't observed--or at least not cataloged--by anyone prior to Dreyer's publication of the NGC/IC, this object has no designation in those catalogs. Still, it's a fine subject for moderate aperture under dark transparent sky. Here's the URL: http://members.aol.com/billferris/pwedge.html Regards, Bill in Flagstaff -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.