Eastern Part of Veil Nebula in Cygnus

Portions of an expanding wreath-like gas cloud. Likely to have been caused by a supernova that took place about 35,000 years ago.

The nebula's light is flourescence but the exciting star is not know. The image shows the eastern part of the nebula. The western part is object NGC6990. If you hold your mouse over this, you will see a piggyback shot of both parts of the veil.

Images taken with TEC-140 Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount. Camera used was a Canon EOS20D used at prime focus.

Five 2 minutes exposures dark compensated, aligned and stacked, background removed and Digitaly Developed in ImagesPlus 2.01