Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396  ·  Sh2-131  ·  VdB142
IC 1396, The Elephant Trunk, Ken Sablinsky
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IC 1396, The Elephant Trunk

IC 1396, The Elephant Trunk, Ken Sablinsky
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IC 1396, The Elephant Trunk

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IC 1396, the Elephant Trunk Nebula. Making progress learning PixInsight, especially the noise reduction routines. This is my longest exposure to date, as I had three solid nights without the Marine layer fogging me out as usually happens. I think my 120 second exposures were a bit too long for the gain setting (or my gain was too high), as I was blowing out more stars than I wanted to at this exposure/gain combination.

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IC 1396, The Elephant Trunk, Ken Sablinsky