Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  HD205196  ·  HD205510  ·  HD205948  ·  HD206081  ·  HD239710  ·  HD239712  ·  LBN 451  ·  LBN 452  ·  LDN 1093  ·  LDN 1096  ·  LDN 1098  ·  LDN 1099  ·  LDN 1102  ·  LDN 1105
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
Powered byPixInsight

Elephant Trunk 2022

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
Powered byPixInsight

Elephant Trunk 2022

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

I am trying to set higher standards of data collection for myself and wanted to get at least 15hrs on this target. I succeeded and got 19 hours. The additional integration time really helped bring out more detail and contrast and kept the data from breaking down when stretched for HOO and SHO pallets. Thanks for looking! Criticism with pointers welcome!

-Clint

"IC 1396 - 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 Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity." - Wikipedia

Comments

Revisions

  • Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
    Original
  • Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
    B
  • Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
    C
  • Final
    Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
    D
  • Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
    E
  • Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters
    F

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Elephant Trunk 2022, Clint Lemasters