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IC1396A, the Elephant's trunk in SHO, Jari Saukkonen

IC1396A, the Elephant's trunk in SHO

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IC1396A, the Elephant's trunk in SHO, Jari Saukkonen

IC1396A, the Elephant's trunk in SHO

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Description

A detail view of the Elephant's Trunk nebula, captured with a modest 10cm telescope. Despite the short 410mm focal length a lot of interesting details can be extracted when exposed well enough. Image is cropped heavily from the full field to get the desired composition.

The target was imaged during five nights in October and November. Moon was up during most of the nights so I ended up with loads of HA and SII data. OIII was the weakest channel, but it seems that not much detail is available there so in the end it didn't matter that much.

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IC1396A, the Elephant's trunk in SHO, Jari Saukkonen