25.07.2006 - Wechselgebiet

After 5,000 years, the gorgeous Veil Nebula is still turning heads. 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 ag.o Seen from our perspective against a rich Milky Way star field, the Veil Nebula is now known to lie some 1,400 light-years away toward the constellation Cygnus. At that distance, witnesses to the original stellar explosion would have seen a star in the heavens increase in brightness to about -8 magnitude, roughly corresponding to the brightness of the crescent Moon

EPSILON 160 f/3.3 , Starlight SXV-M25, 100min Ha + 100min OIII

Supernova Remnant
Size: 80' x 26'
Constellation: Cygnus
Distance: 1400 light years Magnitude: 5.0
RA: 20h 56m
Dec: +31 ° 43'