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IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Alex Gorbachev
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IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Alex Gorbachev
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IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

This is the result of 11 days of imaging from MD and WV (AHSP). Brief workflow in Pixinsight:

ABE

Deconvolution

Linear Fit

Histogram Transformation

MLT and MMT to clean up noise in channels (OIII is noisy)

Dynamic Crop

PixelMath

0.5*s2 + 0.5*n2

ha

o3

MMT to remove stars

invert image, SCNR green, Invert again (to remove magenta stars)

curves

invert image, SCNR green, Invert again (to remove magenta stars)

HDRMT

Comments

Revisions

  • IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Alex Gorbachev
    Original
  • IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Alex Gorbachev
    B
  • Final
    IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Alex Gorbachev
    C

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

IC1396A The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, Alex Gorbachev