Object: Flame, Horsehead, Running man and Orion Nebulae
Equipment: Borg 77EDII on G-11 mount; SBIG STL-11000M camera; Vixen 70S guidescope
Exposure/Processing: 9 x 200s RGB each; 6 x 600s hydrogen alpha as luminance; Processed Maxim DL and Photoshop.
Location/Date: Gainesville, FL, 20 October 2011
Comment: 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 supernova exploded 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees or approximately 70 light years across at its distance of approximately 1500 light years.