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African Watering  Hole SHO  with Rokinon 135 mm  (Elephant Trunk, Lion,  Dark Nebulae), Brandon Tackett
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African Watering Hole SHO with Rokinon 135 mm (Elephant Trunk, Lion, Dark Nebulae)

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African Watering  Hole SHO  with Rokinon 135 mm  (Elephant Trunk, Lion,  Dark Nebulae), Brandon Tackett
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African Watering Hole SHO with Rokinon 135 mm (Elephant Trunk, Lion, Dark Nebulae)

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A fun SHO project incorporating the African Theme into the 135 mm field of view. I made the most of several clear nights a few weeks ago and I am now trying to get through all the processing. Definitely not a bad problem to have1 

The elephant trunk and Lion Nebulae I feel are quite striking when seeing them in context to each other. I also see a head of hippopotamus emerging from the top left out of the water along with two African Darters Birds as the dark nebula in the upper middle area  near the end of the hippos mouth. 

Image is still noisy for my test, but I will have to go back remove noise at the linear stage. I got too excited to see what it would look like and only worked on the noise in the non linear portion.  

The Elphant Trunk Nebula NGC 1396 A is a large column of gas within the larger interstellar gas cloud and open cluster of NGC 1396.  Located in the constellation of Cephus, the formation is roughly 2,400 light years from earth and the tower column is thought to be nearly 20 light years in height.

The Lion Nebula is  located 10k to 12k light years from earth in the constellation of Cephas.  The large Hydrogen and Oxygen nebula clouds are being irradiated by large super hot Wolf -Reyaet  star WR 153ab.

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African Watering  Hole SHO  with Rokinon 135 mm  (Elephant Trunk, Lion,  Dark Nebulae), Brandon Tackett