Elephant's Trunk Nebula, IC1396 (jewzaam)

Elephant's Trunk Nebula, IC1396

This spring I spent time on IC1396 with an ASI533MC Pro. It was a good candidate to compare shooting with the ASI2600MM Pro I just got. The ability to do true SHO with the new camera is a completely different experience! I didn't frame this up very well and I didn't get much data but still love the outcome. I've moved on to other targets and tuning the new setup but expect I'll come back next year to frame it better and see how I have improved. Hope you enjoy

B

Description: Cropped the top of the shot to balance it better.

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C

Description: Refining my workflow for SHO and leveraging Affinity Photo for all color processing after initial work in PixInsight. I am glad to be working with layers again. It makes going back and updating things so much easier!

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D

Description: Starless version using a star mask from PI and Inpainting in Affinity Photo.

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E

Description: As much as I like using layers in Affinity Photo for the final color processing I just wasn't getting the results I wanted, including a lot of color noise. I've doing some more testing on what I want out of an image and decided that doing selective color manipulations on the color image before LRGBC is the best fit for me right now. It does mean more fiddling about in PI for the final result but I feel it looks better. Perhaps I'll pop out to AP a second time for curves sometime. It would be nice to tweak vs undo/redo!

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F

Description: Feel I should start this one over, it was a part of a test of many different color palettes. Final result is a straight SHO edited in PixInsight only with RGB stars. I've since figured out a few different (better) things to do in the process. Until I go back and re-do this, here we go.. a pretty good version.

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G

Description: Trying StarXTerminator for removing stars.. I like it a LOT! Makes protecting stars trivial.. they're just not there and there are much less (or no) artifacts vs starnet. Turns out this rendition is a bit more gold.

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H

Description: Just using updated processing steps to see what I get. Pulled out a bit of magenta at the end which I hadn't done before and used Topaz DeNoise AI for a final denoise.

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RA (center)	21h39m40s.67
RA (top/left)	21h48m33s.71
RA (top/right)	21h49m26s.73
RA (bottom/right)	21h30m20s.40
RA (bottom/left)	21h30m27s.41

Dec (center)	+57°31′14″.7
Dec (top/left)	+56°29′10″.2
Dec (top/right)	+58°26′49″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°30′41″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°33′09″.8

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