IC 1318, Gamma Cyg Nebula consists of the blue area surrounding Gamma Cygni - the bright star in the upper middle of this image. Gamma Cygni is actually not part of this nebula, it is a foreground star located half way between us and the nebula. We are looking deep into the Orion Arm of our Galaxy in this direction and the nebula is more than 3000 ly from us.