Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396  ·  The star Garnet Star (μCep)
IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula, Kyle Butler
IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula
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IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula

IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula, Kyle Butler
IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula
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IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

Exposure Details

40x 180s Ha (Atik Medium gain preset)

40x 180s SII (Atik Medium gain preset)

40x 180s OIII (Atik Medium gain preset)

50x Darks and flats for calibration

6 hours total integration time

Processing

Processed each channel individually

Frames calibrated and stacked in PixInsight, drizzle 2x

DynamicBackgroundExtraction

MLT noise reduction on each channel

Stretched each channel individually using MaskedStretch, followed by HistogramTransformation

Combined using PixelMath (roughly SHO, with some minor customization)

Another round of MLT on combined image with mask

ColorSaturation

CurvesTransformation

DarkStructureEnhance

Comments

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IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula, Kyle Butler