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The Bridal Veil aka Cirrus Network and Filamentary nebula is a Supernova remnant and emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula is expanding at approximately 100 km / second and lies 2,500 light years from earth. This supernova remnant is the remains of a star that dramatically exploded about 35-40 million years ago. The discarded material was ejected into space and shows primarily as ionized hydrogen (red) and inoized oxygen (blue).

The image is a false color composite created from 84 minutes of Ha data and 84 minutes of O-III data (21 x 4 minute subexposures) with a Starlight Xpress SXV-H9, Astronomik 13nm bandpass filter through a Takahahsi FS60c @ f/4.4