Exposures and filters: 60 min each of RGB; 2 hrs each of Ha and O3 for a total of 7 hours over two nights.
FOV =52 x 35 arc minutes
From wikipedia: The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the Constelation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source SNR exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon).
The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light years
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