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IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula, omeganon
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IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula

IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula, omeganon
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IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula

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Description

First light image from my new Nexdome Observatory.

 IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Esprit 100ED
QHY268c
L-Extreme filter
30x5m (150 minutes integration time)

APP for stacking (darks, flats, bias)

Pixinsight
  DynamicCrop
  ABE
  EZ Soft Stretch
  Photometric Color Calibration
  Duplicate
  Starnet
  PixelMath (original-starless=stars)
  Extract Luminance
  LRGB Combination (0.29)
  Extract RGB
  PixelMath (Red=Red, Green=(0.8 * Green) + (0.2 * Red), Blue=Blue) — VisibleDark ref for OCS to pseudo-Hubble Palette
  EZ Denoise

Photoshop
  Camera Raw Filter (Dehaze, Clarity, Contrast)
  Rotate 180

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IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula, omeganon