Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396  ·  The star Garnet Star (μCep)
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Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Narrowband SHO, gmvtex
Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Narrowband SHO
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Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Narrowband SHO

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Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Narrowband SHO, gmvtex
Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Narrowband SHO
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Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Narrowband SHO

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This is a narrowband capture of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. The palette used is the 'standard' SHO, or Hubble, color palette. It was taken over several nights during late Nov and early Dec 2020 while the target was in my field of view. It would likely benefit from about twice as many light frames, but I have approximately 24 600sec frames of each filter in this image - enough to at least render a complete image, even if a little grainy. The effective focal length of 585mm combined with a full frame sensor allowed me to capture a pretty wide field of view, which I haven't seen very often for this nebula. I will work on a more traditional cropped version which I will likely post as a separate image.

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Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Narrowband SHO, gmvtex

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