The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC1369A) (Bruce Donzanti)

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

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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC1369A)

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After imaging this beauty in H-alpha, I decided to attempt a palette, knowing fully well that details are inherently lost due to the multicolor nature of the image and how our eyes perceive such images. Despite that, I was really pleased with the outcome, mind you, I made 6 color versions but settled on this one.........for now :-). The challenge here was the heat and humidity as the camera only cooled down to -5 degrees. However, NoiseXTerminator really worked like a champ to help counter the noisy frames, especially the SII. I took way more OIII and SII than Ha as those wavelengths clearly did not pull out as much detail as did H-alpha.

IC1369A is such a wonderful object to image as so many have done but I really wanted to try a close-up, thus doing it at f/10 (2800mm) at a pixel scale of 0.28 arcsec/pixel. Fortunately, I had excellent guiding. I hope to add RGB stars in the future but many cloudy nights lie ahead.

I hope you like this different look and any feedback is always welcomed.

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RA (center)	21h36m01s.858
RA (top/left)	21h38m07s.226
RA (top/right)	21h35m05s.258
RA (bottom/right)	21h33m56s.410
RA (bottom/left)	21h36m57s.622

Dec (center)	+57°29′18″.45
Dec (top/left)	+57°30′13″.30
Dec (top/right)	+57°44′23″.78
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°28′16″.63
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°14′11″.48

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