IC1396 - Elephant Trunk Closeup (John Dziuba)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD205196 · HD205948 · HD206081 · HD239710 · LBN 451 · LBN 452 · LDN 1093 · LDN 1098 · LDN 1099 · LDN 1105

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IC1396 - Elephant Trunk Closeup

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This is the Elephant Trunk nebula captured with my HD11 and ASI-6200MM. This is a difficult target from my back yard. It is rather low on the Northern horizon never climbing above 55 degrees and that is right into the worst light pollution in the direction of urban Miami. Compounding this, the heavy and humid summer air refracts all that stray light around making things worse. In these conditions It can be a struggle just to keep a lock on a guide star while using the OAG given that the prism is in front of the filter wheel and subject to the unfiltered light. I cobbled this data set together over a 30 day period grabbing a few frames wherever I could.

Interestingly hurricane Ian, which devastated the Western coast of Florida, was so atmospherically powerful that it pulled a huge dry air mass around its back side resulting in four nearly perfect nights of imaging. This allowed me to complete this project and start a new one. As we are heading into our dry season now, I am excited to image more from my home base with some new equipment that I am patiently waiting to deploy.

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ASI 6200 MM Pro
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Florida / Georgia Imagers

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RA (center)	21h34m16s.280
RA (top/left)	21h36m34s.730
RA (top/right)	21h38m31s.806
RA (bottom/right)	21h31m53s.943
RA (bottom/left)	21h30m02s.420

Dec (center)	+57°31′03″.44
Dec (top/left)	+57°01′26″.76
Dec (top/right)	+57°38′11″.39
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°00′27″.39
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°23′21″.34

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