Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396
An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396), pcruiksh
An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396)
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An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396)

An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396), pcruiksh
An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396)
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An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396)

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Description

After acquiring my Mach 1 in September, the ubiquitous "new-gear-induced-cloud-cover" seemed to stretch an entire winter for me. So here I am many months later, finally getting a first light with it. To nobody's surprise, it performed beautifully. The Elephant Trunk is an awesome structure that I had previously attempted with an unmodified DSLR, and after taking a single frame and seeing how little signal I was getting, gave up on immediately. In narrowband, this object has some really amazing detail, and is very well suited to careful and incremental deconvolution and multi-scale processing in PixInsight to make it crisp and bold. It also rewards composition, and I'm very pleased with the framing of the object. Thanks for looking!

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    An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396), pcruiksh
    Original
    An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396), pcruiksh
    B
  • Final
    An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396), pcruiksh
    C

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An Elephant Never Forgets (IC 1396), pcruiksh