Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  VdB142
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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk nebula - Cepheus, Daniel.P
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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk nebula - Cepheus

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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk nebula - Cepheus, Daniel.P
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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk nebula - Cepheus

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Description

I use the Hutech LPV4 filter to boost teh Ha and O3 lines. However, I got most of the signal in the red and I was not able to display information in the green and blue channel. I guess for that you need NB imaging ?

Pre-processing done in Pixinsight :

- overscan area offset correction

- bias correction

- dark correction using 7 x 1800 s darks

- flat correction

- hot pixel correction

- debayer

- registration

- stack

Processing done in Pixinsight :

- backgroung color neutralisation

- color calibration using nebula

- non linear image creation

- color saturation boost masked

- TGV denoise (no mask)

Final image :

- jpeg calibration done in Mac Photo (levels adjust and further saturation boost)

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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk nebula - Cepheus, Daniel.P