Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396  ·  Sh2-131  ·  VdB142
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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Starlancer
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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula

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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Starlancer
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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula

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This is a hard target for me, it's in the direction of Chicago so light pollution is bad.

Went out to set up and was partly cloudy and was always a high haze so ended up tossing about 20 subs.

Really pushing the Astrophysics CCDT67 this is at 822mm if I remember, and the scope is 1390mm so that's about .6 reduction sure some of the stars at the edge are getting a bit out of shape but for that much reduction I can't complain.

Guiding seemed iffy, really need a newer mount, the ASGT is being pushed to it's limits and it's old so went for 120 second subs, usually shoot for 180 or a bit more. Also my first time trying so dithering, seems to help noise some.

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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Starlancer

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