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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula from the city, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula from the city, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
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Acquisition details

Dates:
July 29, 2020
Frames:
543×300(45h 15′)
Integration:
45h 15′
Avg. Moon age:
9.49 days
Avg. Moon phase:
71.66%

RA center: 21h39m54s.45

DEC center: +57°2349.4

Pixel scale: 1.139 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 72.044 degrees

Field radius: 1.810 degrees

WCS transformation: thin plate spline

More info:Open 

Resolution: 9160x6848

File size: 35.4 MB

Data source: Backyard

Description

IC 1396 wide field from the backyard (Las Vegas Bortle 9). This is 45 hours and 15 minutes of exposure, my new record!

This was fun, the framing was really tight but just right with the Meade 70mm APO.

My OIII data looked terrible so I really wish I grabbed that from the desert, but I don't have the will to work on this again so maybe in a couple of years.

Visit my blog to see the difference between 26 and 45 hours of total integration time: https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ic-1396-the-elephant-s-trunk-nebula-from-the-backyard

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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula from the city, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin