Veil Nebula as photographed from the Vladeasa Cabin in Bihor-Vladeasa Mountains, August 2009, during the Transilvania Star Party - Vladeasa 2009.

For this shot, Cilian Andres painstakingly took 11x5 minutes images, using a 5D Mark II at ISO 1600, through a Canon 200mm f:2.8 lens, riding on a Astrotrac TT 320X mount. Alin Tolea later coadded the images using the freeware package Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.0 and further enhanced the resulting image in Pixinsight 1.5.2 and Photoshop CS3.

As a funny aside, Cilian's car slipped and hit another parked car at the cabin while he was exposing. After he was notified, he quickly inspected the damage, arranged for a joint trip to the insurance agency the next day and returned to the camera. It was at ~ 3 am in the morning. That's what I call dedication.