By Barry Medlin | 2022-09-11
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On 08/23/2022 by Ryan Walsh| Leslie, MI, USA
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is part of a large emission nebula (IC1396) located 2400 light-years from Earth, and it can be found in the constellation Cepheus. This is my first attempt at imaging this target. Clear Skies!
William Optics FLT91 telescope (with 0.8x reducer/flattener), ZWO asi2600mc pro camera, Antlia ALP-T dual narrowband filter, SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 ro equatorial mount
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Adobe Photoshop
129 x 5-minute light frames + dark/flat/bias frames - 10 hours and 45 minutes of total integration time
