IC 1396 - The Elephant’s Trunk (Wouter Cazaux)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B161 · B163 · B365 · B367 · Erakis · IC 1396 · PK098+04.1 · Sh2-131 · The star Garnet Star (μCep) · VdB142 · mu. Cep

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IC 1396 - The Elephant’s Trunk

20210610 - Into the heart of darkness - I love animals, that’s why I wanted to picture me an Elephant : IC 1396 The Elephant’s Trunk - Remember: take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time

How it was done

Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro

Guiding: ASIAIR Pro, ZWO30F4, ASI120MM (RA guiding only)

Scope: WO RedCat 51

Camera: ASI183MC Pro

Resolution: 1,98”/pixel

FoV 218’

Filter: Optolong L-Extreme

Moon n/a, Bortle 5/6

Processing: Siril - Extracting Ha and OIII, recombining as HHOO into LRGB, Adobe Photoshop - (Mac)

IC 1396 - Gain 125, cooling -10, 300s, 40x

Darks 11x - from previous take, to remove the amp glow)

Clear Skies everybody! 🤩✨🔭

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Description: 20210706 - Practising the Processing skills

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Description: 20210707 - Practising the Processing skills 🤓🤩

Re-processing using PixInsight
SHO simulation of dual narrowband data from Optolong L-extreme.
A bit hard on the data, grainy image, but the satisfaction is in the learning of the processing skills 😎

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Astrophotographers of Belgium

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RA (center)	21h39m23s.84
RA (top/left)	21h48m00s.99
RA (top/right)	21h25m57s.48
RA (bottom/right)	21h31m26s.64
RA (bottom/left)	21h52m29s.52

Dec (center)	+57°36′48″.6
Dec (top/left)	+59°03′40″.10
Dec (top/right)	+58°01′58″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°07′54″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°06′24″.9

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