Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396
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Elephant Trunk Pillar in SOO/HaL, David McClain
Elephant Trunk Pillar in SOO/HaL
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Elephant Trunk Pillar in SOO/HaL

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Elephant Trunk Pillar in SOO/HaL, David McClain
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Elephant Trunk Pillar in SOO/HaL

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Raw frames courtesy of Deep Sky West Remote Observatory in New Mexico, USA. (deepskywest.com) Data obtained with FSQ 106EDXiii / QSI683wsg / Lodestar / Paramount MyT.

21 hrs total integration (16x900s R, 16x900s G, 16x900s B, and 18x1800s H-alpha). The palette is RGB with H-alpha serving as Luminance.

Processing in PixInsight.

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Incorporate the final lessons from the Tucson PixInsight Advanced Workshop. Squeeze every last bit from the image. JPEG doesn't really do justice to the actual image. So it looks like I've hit the limits of what JPEG can show. Still looks pretty good, and you have to look really close to see the detail improvements. But they are there.

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Do a better job removing the red color splotches on the right...

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Elephant Trunk Pillar in SOO/HaL, David McClain