Observation by Mike Greenhill-Hooper: Elephant's Trunk Nebula

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Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observer

Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observed

2022 Aug 27 - 23:00

Uploaded

2022 Sep 05 - 15:54

Objects

The Elephant Trunk (IC1396)

Equipment

770 f/7 ED TS Photoline refractor, 0.8 field flatenner on NEQ6 mount
ASI294MM Pro with ZWO 7nm Ha, OIII and SII filters

Exposure

10x300s exposures for each filter, camera gain 121, offset 10, -15C

Location

Miradoux, S.W. France

Target name

IC1396

Title

Elephant's Trunk Nebula

About this image

Nebulosity reasonably well defined in Ha images, but quite faint in OIII and SII images. Aligned, stacked, calibrated (darks, flats, dark flats) and processed using Hubble palette SHO macro in Affinity Photo.

Files associated with this observation

SHO processed AF0-gigapixel-art-scale-2_00x IC1396.jpg (1.6 MB)

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