NGC 6992

The Eastern 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 supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers.   It is located 2400 light years from Earth.  This image consists of a total of 12hrs and 40min of exposure taken over two nights.  This is made up of the following individual frames:

I took the images from my backyard observatory using an Astro-Tech AT130EDT telescope with a  focal length 910mm.  I used the ZWO ASI 294MM Pro camera and Antlia LRGB and Narrowband filters.   All process using PixInsight.