Veil Nebula

Veil Nebula NGC-6992 taken from Staffordshire, UK by Nigel Armitage in November 2025.

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, 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 between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.
At the time of the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime.
The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter about 2400 light-years.

It is 1,470 light-years away from Earth.
This is one of my earlier pieces of work and contains 60, 5 minute exposure  images, 5 hours of data.
It was taken  in a Bortle 5 Sky.

The equipment used was:
Equipment Used:
Williams Optics Redcat 71
ASI ZWO240MC Pro OSC
Dual Narrowband Filter
ZWO AM5

The image was processed using Siril and Photoshop.

Cygnus Constellation Map. Credit: IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine 

(Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg). License: CC 4

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