Elephant's Trunk (Daryl Mason)

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Decided to try out this target but it was tough. It started out straight overhead, so it was super awkward to frame looking through my DSLR. Then after two hours I had to do a meridian flip. By hand. But after about 20 mins I got it reframed and carried on.

The best part: when I was wrapping up the imaging session and packing up, Orion was well above the horizon in the east, with the waning crescent moon to the left, and left of that a huge band of aurora 10 degrees above the horizon stretching almost entirely across the northern half of the sky. I just looked around in awe and tried to take it all in. Its times like these that really remind me of what I enjoy about astrophotography.

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Astrometry.net job	5054932
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h39m15s.62
RA (top/left)	21h29m57s.64
RA (top/right)	21h27m09s.15
RA (bottom/right)	21h47m27s.59
RA (bottom/left)	21h52m45s.77

Dec (center)	+57°57′24″.7
Dec (top/left)	+60°13′41″.7
Dec (top/right)	+55°59′20″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+55°38′51″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+59°50′35″.6

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