Elephant Trunk Nebula IC1396 v2021 (matthew.maclean)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B160 · B161 · B162 · B163 · B365 · B366 · B367 · B368 · Erakis · IC 1396 · PK097+03.1 · PK098+02.1 · PK098+04.1 · PK100+04.1 · Sh2-128 · Sh2-131 · The star Garnet Star (μCep) · VdB142 · mu. Cep

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Elephant Trunk Nebula IC1396 v2021

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Elephant Trunk Nebula IC1396 v2021

This image was collected over two nights using my Redcat that has been waiting in its case for a year. I've had it out for testing several times, but this is the first production use it's seen. The Elephant Trunk is so large and I wanted to get a complete shot of the whole nebula this year (just slightly too big for the FOV of my G81). This little telescope really is amazing (obvious why they are so popular)! I'm now planning on using it a lot this summer while many of the larger image targets are available.

I really did almost no processing on this image. Even the raw image field looked really good to me - nice flat image field, fairly crisp stars (given my generally poor seeing). I just did a little bit of background smoothing with MLT and one pass with Morphological Transformation just to help round the stars from the seeing effects. But I can't think what else to do with this one, so sometimes "less is more" as the old saying goes.

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Description: Decided to try my hand this morning following a tutorial to artificially create an SHO image from dual-band filter data. The coloring combinations really are endless, but I tried to get something looking close to the authentic examples I found and I had fun!

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Description: reduced the brightness of the blue a little bit more than Rev B to make it a little nicer on my phone's screen.

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Light Polluted skies
Northeast Imagers
William Optics CAT Series
WO Redcat 51 Group

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RA (center)	21h39m01s.57
RA (top/left)	21h51m04s.70
RA (top/right)	21h51m54s.85
RA (bottom/right)	21h25m15s.80
RA (bottom/left)	21h27m45s.10

Dec (center)	+57°28′13″.9
Dec (top/left)	+55°03′34″.8
Dec (top/right)	+59°52′54″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+59°48′00″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+54°59′16″.4

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