IC 1396 Elephant’s Trunk Nebula
IC 1396 Elephant’s Trunk Nebula
This is my 2023 Elephant’s Trunk Nebula with bright ionized gas everywhere in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen with a little addition of RGB color filters for stars. Located about 2400 light years away and has some amazing dark dust regions. Star formation is appearing in this dense dust with with a couple digging a opening in the ‘head’ region from stellar winds and radiation blasting away.
Equipment
Telescope: Celestron RASA 11 (620mm focal @ f/2.2)
Filters: Astronomik MaxFR 50x50mm Square SHO
Main Camera: ZWO ASI 6200mm-pro Monochrome
Tilt & BackFocus Adjuster: ASG Photon Cage
Mount: iOptron CEM 120EC
Guide Scope: William Optics 50mm Uniguide
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 290mm-mini
Location
Location: Pendleton, Oregon
Observatory: NexDome 2.4m Automated
Bortle: 3
Long & Lat: 45.67N, -118.79 W
Shoot Parameters
Date: July 20-30, 2023
R: 107 x 30 seconds
G: 97 x 30 seconds
B: 91 x 30 seconds
Ha: 67 x 300 seconds
Oiii: 75 x 300 seconds
Sii: 26 x 300 seconds
Total Integration time ~16 hrs
Calibration Bias: 20
Calibration Dark: 20
Calibration Flats: 20 for each filter
Gain: 100
Cooling: -10
Processing Software: Captured with NINA, Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor, Processed in PixInsight
