The mystical beauty of the heavens

The Jellyfish Nebula

IC 443 The Jellyfish Nebula is a galactic Supernova Remnant.
It is thought that the Supernova occurred 30,000 - 35,000 years ago.
The Jellyfish is one of the most studied Supernova Remnant's in the night sky.
There is a Neutron Star within that was created by the Supernova.
IC 443 is about 5,000 light years away in the Constellation Gemini.

Apart from the top left hand side of the Nebula the rest of it is quite faint.
There is over 10 hours of imaging time using a 4.5 nm H-alpha filter in this image.