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 the nebula is not precisely known, but data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.
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.
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