Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)
IC1396 IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk, Chen Wu

IC1396 IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk

IC1396 IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk, Chen Wu

IC1396 IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk

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Summer is always hot and humid. I rested for 2 months and came back to the saddle in September when the nights became a little bit cooler. Besides, I had a major project go-live in July job wise.

You could imagine how warm the night is, when the cooled CMOS is still -10C at its maximum.

After months long experiments, all parts fit together well and I was finally able to do imaging sessions more smoothly.

I also did a 3x3 Elephant Trunk mosaic in Ha, while this acquisition was made. All SHO data was captured without worrying the moon phase too much. As the target has relatively higher Dec in the north, the PhD is consistently between 0.4-0.5 arcsec.

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IC1396 IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk, Chen Wu