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The veil nebula

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 large but relatively faint supernova remnant.
The source supernova exploded 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.(WIKI)

Imaged with 10" F/2.8 POWERNEWT Astrograph.
100 minutes total with Orion Starshoot pro 2 color camera
Losmandy G 11 mount with Gemini 2

Imaged from the NEGEV desert in ISRAEL



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