I dedicated the first months of 2026 to a very ambitious project I'd been planning for a couple of years: photographing supernova remnant SNR G206.9+2.3, an ancient stellar explosion whose OIII and H-alpha filaments extend for several thousand light-years into our Milky Way (9,800-16,000 light-years, to be precise).

Imaging this faint supernova remnant was no easy feat, due to the weather, which allowed me only a dozen good evenings in three months, but above all because the shots were taken from my balcony at home under a Bortle 7 sky, heavily polluted by the artificial light of LED streetlights.

This fascinating and rarely photographed object is located in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, about 7,200 light-years away, and represents the remains of a massive star that ended its life with a spectacular explosion approximately 64,000 years ago.