Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396  ·  The star Garnet Star (μCep)
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The Fun House Porch, Scott Denning
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The Fun House Porch

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The Fun House Porch

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Description

Elephant Trunk Nebula

October 15, 2018

2700 light years distant

Borg 55FL 200 mm f/3.6 on iOptron CEM25P guided with Kowa mini guider

Captured in KStars/Ekos with ZWO ASI 094c

unity gain, temp = -20C, IDAS V4 filter

31x300s lights = 2.6 hr total exposure time

31 flats, master dark and master bias

DBE

MLT Denoise

Lightly Stretched

Split into stars and starless using StarNet++ software

Starless image:

TGV Denoise

Curves

Sat boost

Range masked and red enhanced

SCNR

Stars:

Sat boost

Recombined using PixelMath

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The Fun House Porch, Scott Denning