Elephant Trunk Nebula IC 1396A SHO Hubble Palette RASA 8 (Brandon Tackett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B161 · B163 · B365 · B367 · IC 1396 · LBN 451 · LBN 452 · LBN 455 · LBN 456 · LBN 457 · LDN · LDN 1085 · LDN 1087 · LDN 1090 · LDN 1092 · LDN 1093 · LDN 1096 · LDN 1098 · LDN 1099 · LDN 1101 · LDN 1102 · LDN 1103 · LDN 1104 · LDN 1105 · LDN 1106 · LDN 1110 · LDN 1111 · LDN 1112 · LDN 1113 · LDN 1115 · And 8 more.

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Elephant Trunk Nebula IC 1396A SHO Hubble Palette RASA 8

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Elephant Trunk Nebula IC 1396A SHO Hubble Palette RASA 8

NGC 1396 A is a large column of gas within the larger interstellar gas cloud and open cluster of NGC 1396. Located in the constellation of Cephus, the formation is roughly 2,400 light years from earth and the tower column is thought to be nearly 20 light years in height. New star star formation is clearly occurring and several large new stars can be seen in the column with some at the end of the trunk evacuating the gas through solar winds.

I left a fair amount of green in because I like the idea of the red sulfur portion of image as the surrounding dry savannah with a small amount of green vegetation near a watering hole. Or, Maybe, I have been watching Lion King to much lately with my kids.

Definitely take a look at the full version to see the new born stars and greater detail.

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Description: Vast Detail Improvement! I went back and did a deconvolution on the Ha Layer with more sharpening and added it as a luminance layer. The original Image is almost embarrassing compared to the new image.

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RA (center)	21h38m48s.98
RA (top/left)	21h47m33s.36
RA (top/right)	21h47m54s.35
RA (bottom/right)	21h29m38s.79
RA (bottom/left)	21h30m08s.46

Dec (center)	+57°26′04″.2
Dec (top/left)	+56°32′47″.6
Dec (top/right)	+58°17′45″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°16′59″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°31′58″.3

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