Elephant's Trunk within IC 1396, Mike Seeman

Elephant's Trunk within IC 1396

Elephant's Trunk within IC 1396, Mike Seeman

Elephant's Trunk within IC 1396

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This is my natural-color-type HOO image of the Elephant's Trunk region of IC 1396 taken from the city with a dual-narrowband filter. 

Despite how big and popular the subject is, it's not as bright as many of the other popular emission nebulae, and required 16 hours of data from my city backyard.  The OIII data was still a bit lacking, so I duplicated the H-alpha layer as the luminosity layer in Photoshop.  This way I could run a lot of noise reduction on the chroma layer, as well as healing out the plethora of star halos in OIII, without impacting the details and shading too much.

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Elephant's Trunk within IC 1396, Mike Seeman