Elephant trunk in broadband (John Lascola)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B160 · B161 · B162 · B163 · B365 · B367 · Erakis · Erakis (μ Cep) · HD205196 · HD205510 · HD205917 · HD205948 · HD206081 · HD206183 · HD206267 · HD206482 · HD206773 · HD207086 · HD239706 · HD239710 · HD239712 · HD239724 · HD239725 · HD239727 · HD239729 · HD239748 · HD239758 · HD239767 · IC 1396 · LBN 451 · And 44 more.

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When I started this hobby last summer I bought myself a redcat51 and EQ6R mount. I put a asi294MCpro on the back of the redcat and started shooting whatever I could find. I took roughly 90 pictures at 180 seconds of IC1396 with a astronomik uv/ir cut filter….stacked the images and looked at the result feeling very disappointed not knowing how other photographers were getting so much color and detail. The data was forgotten some time passed and I learned more about processing discovered the wonderful pixinsight and spent some hours on YouTube tutorials like many of us do lol. Speed ahead to the present last 2 months have been horrible for any kind of Astro projects only getting a hour here or there of questionable data. So naturally I started reprocessing some old data finding this 4.5 hours of broadband on ic1396. Used the holy trinity of Xterminators Blur,noise, and Star along with some Bill Blanshan color mask tools to add some saturation and brighten the natural color. I think the result turned out pretty cool!

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7124028
PixInsight job	IHHDCSFT5JOFPBVN6SYH2H27B9G1LMT0
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h38m56s.41
RA (top/left)	21h27m11s.46
RA (top/right)	21h43m41s.80
RA (bottom/right)	21h51m37s.43
RA (bottom/left)	21h33m36s.84

Dec (center)	+57°30′50″.7
Dec (top/left)	+56°04′31″.6
Dec (top/right)	+55°27′32″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°52′47″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+59°33′26″.9

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