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Cygnus Veil, Monty Chandler
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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.

These visible structures have been identified as:

 (L) The Western Veil, C34, consists of NGC 6960 Witches Broom, Lacework Nebula, or Filamentary Nebula.  

(R)  The Eastern Veil, C33, whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as "Network Nebula") and IC 1340.  

(C)  Pickering's Triangle,  brightest at the north central edge of the loop in the bottom center of image. 

This entire area is very dense with stars.

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 explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime.  The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, and 36 times the area, of the full Moon).

Imaged from July through October 2020 at 440mm with a WO Z73 Scope and an ASI 071MC Pro camera with the OPT L-Enhance filter.  All riding an Eq6rPro equatorial mount.

24 hrs of exposure acquisition with APT &, Guiding via PHD2.  

Processed manually in PixInsight.

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Cygnus Veil, Monty Chandler