A deep space astrophotograph of the Elephant Trunk Nebula, catalog IC1396. This image uses 120 x 5 minute exposures gathered over three nights in the not very dark skies of Savannah, GA and during a 90% moon. The use of narrowband filtration isolates the glowing red hydrogen and blue oxygen gasses, while also cutting out much of the moonlight and light pollution. IC 1396 is a very large object but hard to see visually compared to what the filtered camera can capture.
Elephant Trunk Nebula IC1396
10 hours of imaging over 9/3-9/6/25
Askar FMA180pro, Asi2600MC-Duo, SV220-duo-nb, SW-GTI, AsiAir+
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