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IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula, Guillermo de Miranda
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IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula

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IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula

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We had a few good nights in a row, so I decided to use them well! The stars could use some work, maybe I'll get back to it for a reprocess some day. For now, I'm happy with the result.

This is data I collected over three nights. There would have been four, but I discovered my first night imaging was slightly out of focus so I had to throw out at least an hour of worth of frames You live and you learn I suppose. The third night I cranked the exposure time up slightly to 120 seconds, to get a bit more signal. I probably could have gotten away with more, but even with the L-eNhance my light pollution starts to bleed into the signal so a stronger filter is probably next on my wish list.

I ended up using the 120” data as a luminance layer and give the nebula some punch. I admit I didn’t expect to see this level of detail from a 135mm, but then again it is a pretty big object!

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IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula, Guillermo de Miranda