The
'Elephants Trunk': Part of IC 1396.
Distance: 1500 light years.
Amanda took one look at this and said...'you've found God!'
In this orientation, it does rather look like a gigantic one eyed old
man, beard and all!!
In our house it will always be known as the 'God nebula'
This took a while in the processing stage, as I was a bit lax at aligning
the scope for my different subs.
This meant that the Hb and OIII images were quite heavily cropped.
I liked the overall framing of the region in the Ha image though, so have
rebuilt the cropped areas....you can still see the join, but only just!
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Scope was the WO ZS80FD with a celestron
0.63x reducer
Camera, Atik 16HR
16 x Ha @ 360 seconds (15 subs were unusable due to guiding issues)
10 each of OIII and H-beta @ 240 seconds binned 2x2
Ha was used as both luminance and red.
OIII was green and H beta, blue.
Total imaging time: 2 hours 53 minutes
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