The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. To find the location of this deep-sky object, look toward the Garnet Star (Mu Cephei).IC 1396 is actually a much bigger area of ionized gas, containing the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula within it. A very bright, massive star (HD 206267), located close to the east of IC 1396A, is illuminating and ionizing the surface of the dense cloud, which is seen as the bright rim.

Telescope:Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Focal Length: 382 mm
Focal Ratio:3.6
Mount : Paramount MX+


Camera:QHY 600M Pro
Pixel Array: 9576 x 6382 pixels
Pixel Resolution: 2.02 arcsec/pixel

Filters: Astrodon Ha (3nm), SII (3nm), OIII (3nm)

Images are of different filters are stacked and post-processed in Pixinsight and final touches were given in Adobe Photoshop