IC 1396 - Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC1396 - HSO Palette) (Chiradeep Chhaya)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD205196 · HD205948 · HD239710 · LBN 451 · LBN 452 · LDN 1093 · LDN 1098 · LDN 1099 · LDN 1102 · LDN 1105

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IC 1396 - Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC1396 - HSO Palette)

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IC 1396 - Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC1396 - HSO Palette)

HSO rendering of IC1396, also known as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus. This target really needs no introduction, being both an astrophotographer's favorite in summer/early Fall (in northern hemisphere) as well as being a canonical specimen of the phenomenon of elephant trunks, dark lanes of dust obscuring starlight from behind and giving the appearance of pillars arising from the molecular cloud.

I am super chuffed by this image, but for slightly different reasons:

My first time capturing over 5h of data on this target from a B1 location.
My first capture using the (new to me) AP1200GTO, acquired recently in April 2023.
My first ever unguided run with 300s subs!! That's a huge night-and-day difference between this mount and the CEM40 I previously used.

I have 1.2 arc-mins of PA error which I am hoping to eliminate tonight. i'll rely on Dec arc modeling and am aiming to collect ~4 more hours of data for a final run tonight.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7870485
PixInsight job	6DH6NVIQSLC0GQKRK1WF1QQ47F2QP38S
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h34m44s.430
RA (top/left)	21h37m05s.499
RA (top/right)	21h38m18s.546
RA (bottom/right)	21h32m18s.995
RA (bottom/left)	21h31m14s.790

Dec (center)	+57°43′26″.65
Dec (top/left)	+57°15′03″.38
Dec (top/right)	+58°02′18″.90
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°11′31″.22
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°24′12″.73

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