Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  VdB142
Elephant's Trunk Nebula, apaps
Powered byPixInsight

Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Elephant's Trunk Nebula, apaps
Powered byPixInsight

Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.

This data was captured on 8 nights between June 4 and June 21. Calibration and processing (including 2x downsampling) done in PixInsight. Final tweaks (including star reduction and diffraction) done in Photoshop.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Elephant's Trunk Nebula, apaps