By Rui Santos | 2024-11-02
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The Elephant Trunk Nebula
On 11/01/2024 07:15 pm by Catherine Hyde| Cambria, CA USA
This is IC 1396, the Elephant Trunk Nebula. It's actually 327 3-minute images, taken over two consecutive nights, and stacked together. That's a total of over 16 hours of total integration time.
Takahashi 106 refractor, Nikon D810A DSLR camera, Astro-physics Mach2 tracking mount. Guide camera, software and scope.
I extracted the stars and stretched and slightly sharpened the nebulosity in PixInsight, then recombined.