52 Cygni(bright star) and NGC-6960 The Veil Nebula – "The Witches Broom"

52 Cygni(bright star) and NGC-6960 The Veil Nebula – “The Witches Broom”

A Supernova Remnant in Cygnus, A massive star exploded about 5,000 years ago leaving this beautiful filamentary remnant amongst a star studded field of the Cygnus Milky Way.

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus, its part of a much larger loop, 3 degrees in diameter of this SNR nebula, and it is

located about 2400 light years from Earth.

I will be posting close-ups of other sections of the Loop in the next few weeks.

A Celestron 6 inch F5 Newtonian telescope, ZWO 294MC Cooled Cmos Camera, Coma Corrector, L-Enhance Filter, Bisque MYT mount, EAF, ASI Air app via WiFi to IPAD, from my backyard in Dayton, Ohio (Bortle8)

Best Regards,

John Chumack