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

9/27/05 to 10/26/05 (many cloudy nights)  Near downtown Seattle

Exposure

Lum   210 min  (14 x 15 min)
Red     60 min  (  4 x 15, bin 2 x 2)
Green  60 min  (  4 x 15, bin 2 x 2)
Blue    66 min  (  3 x 22, bin 2 x 2)

Software

CCDSoft, FocusMax, PhotoShop CS,  PaintShop Pro, DitherMat was used for the Lumance

Comment

North is to the top.

After 5,000 years, the gorgeous Veil Nebula is still turning heads. Cataloged as NGC 6992, these glowing filaments of interstellar shocked gas are part of a larger spherical supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop or the Veil Nebula -- expanding debris from a star which exploded over 5,000 years ago.

The Veil Nebula is now known to lie some 1,400 light-years away toward the constellation Cygnus.