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 (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernovaexploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.

Imaging cameras: 40D Canon
Mounts: CG5 Equatorial Celestron
Guiding cameras: Star Shooter Autoguider Orion
Focal reducers: 0.85 Focal Reducer-Flattner(ED80) Orion
Software: PHD Guiding and Noell’s Tools, 3.3.3 Beta 47; 4.5; CS 5 Deep Sky Stacker, Image Plus and Photo Shop, Fire Stone
Resolution: 850×556
Dates: Oct. 27, 2014
Locations: Skip Rapp —— All images taken from driveway at home
Frames:
5×400″ ISO1600
5×700″ ISO1600
Integration: 1.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.07 days
Avg. Moon phase: 10.26%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
RA center: 314.159 degrees
DEC center: 31.553 degrees
Pixel scale: 10.317 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -85.501 degrees
Field radius: 1.456 degrees

Astrophotography of the day of SPONLI, 04.11.2014