Supernova remnant
Veil Nebula (NGC6960)
In Cygnus (Cyg) • Magnitude 7.0 • 1.2 degrees
Open the free AstroPlanner with Veil Nebula pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
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Veil Nebula at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 6960, C 34 |
| Type | Supernova remnant |
| Constellation | Cygnus (Cyg) |
| Right ascension | 20h 45m 47s |
| Declination | +30° 43' 12" |
| Apparent magnitude | 7.00 |
| Surface brightness | 15.0 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 70.0 × 6.0 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 76° |
| Best imaging months | Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct |
How to image Veil Nebula
Veil Nebula sits in the constellation Cygnus at right ascension 20h 45m 47s and declination +30° 43' 12". To frame and integrate it well, AstroPlanner will compute the optimal moonless window for tonight from your location, the field-of-view fit against your sensor and focal length, the suggested total integration time given your aperture and sky Bortle class, and a cloud-aware schedule that drops it from the plan if your nearest cloud forecast spike overlaps the best altitude window.