Instrument

Celestron C11 @  F/6.1 (1705 mm)  1.087 arcsec / pixel

Mount

Losmandy G11

Camera

SBIG ST-7 with CFW-8A color wheel

Acquisition Date

Exposure

Lum   265 min  (53 X 5 min)
Red     90 min  (18 x 5, bin 2 x 2)
Green  60 min  (12 x 5, bin 2 x 2)
Blue    60 min  (8 x 7.5, bin 2  x 2)

Software

CCDSoft, CCDOPS, DitherMatic was used to dither the luminance layer, Sigma Clip (pre beta 11), Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop CS w/ the Fits Liberator plug-in, and Noel Carboni's actions .

Comment

North is to the right.

This is a close up of the northern part of the west end of the Veil Nebula. The supernova remnant lies about 1400 light-years away towards the constellation of Cygnus. Also called the Witch's Broom, the entire nebula spans over three times the angular size of the full Moon.