IC1396A Elephant Trunk Nebula (Pete Bouras)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)

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IC1396A Elephant Trunk Nebula

With bad weather continuing, decided to completely re-process this image,switching from StarTools to PixInsight.
Also went for a new color scheme. Went a bit subdued on the saturation, tryin to keep the lower dark regions looking more like brown dust.
SHO image, using BlurX, GHS, and Bill Blanshan's SHONormalization v5 script to arrive at the basic color scheme. Topaz Denoise AI, curves and mask work
For the stars separate stretch, used StarX, GHS, SCNR, NoiseX, curves, and rescreen into the final image.

Taken over 3 nights from my Bortle 5 home with the moon out
Dates: Aug. 11, 2022 · Aug. 12, 2022 · Aug. 13, 2022
previous effort

Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 36 mm: 66×300″(5h 30′)
Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 36 mm: 60×300″(5h)
Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 36 mm: 78×300″(6h 30′)
Integration: 17h

Thanks for looking!
Clear Skies,
Pete

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the east of IC 1396A. (wikipedia)

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