IC1396 - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (Ivan)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B160 · B161 · B162 · B163 · B365 · B367 · Erakis · Erakis (μ Cep) · HD205510 · HD205917 · HD205948 · HD206081 · HD206183 · HD206267 · HD206482 · HD206773 · HD207086 · HD239710 · HD239712 · HD239724 · HD239725 · HD239727 · HD239729 · HD239748 · IC 1396 · LBN 451 · LBN 452 · LBN 455 · LBN 456 · LBN 457 · And 33 more.

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IC1396 - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

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IC1396 - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

One of the first targets I tried back with a DSLR, it's astounding to see how far I've come with a proper setup. This is honestly not one of my favourite nebulae, however it's a big a famous one, so I had to do it.

I tried a bunch of new stuff, whether or not the results are better than I would have done before is hard to say as I've got nothing to compare it to and I always only focus on the faults and parts I don't like, however I think it's still a decent and colourful piece. I tend to like bolder, brighter, more contrasty colours, then I look at other folks' works and think why does it look so good (of course theirs is subtle).

I redid my flats after taking these shots, so hopefully that helped. Tried out GraXpert and the new BXT on this one. Used RGB stars that were reduced.

I'm not sure why this ended up looking so stippled. I'm thinking it's either from too much processing, or it's this target in combination with star removal, or one of my filters is having issues. I think it's just the O that looks way worse than the others, despite the time put into it is still high. Perhaps it's because I'm using Drizzle? If you have any thoughts, please let me know!

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Astrometry.net job	8969103
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h39m01s.505
RA (top/left)	21h45m53s.750
RA (top/right)	21h46m41s.314
RA (bottom/right)	21h31m34s.699
RA (bottom/left)	21h31m56s.280

Dec (center)	+57°26′32″.52
Dec (top/left)	+55°58′55″.96
Dec (top/right)	+58°51′31″.98
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°52′45″.39
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°00′01″.44

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