Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  IC 1396
IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk nebula, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)
IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk nebula
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IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk nebula

IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk nebula, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)
IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk nebula
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IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk nebula

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Description

Panel 1 on the left was taken on the nights of 25/7/2014,2/8/2014 26 x 600 secs subs. Panel 2 on the right was taken on the nights of 3/8/2014,4/8/2014 27 x 600 secs subs. In total 8Hrs 50 mins. Only bias was used for stacking. Microsoft ICE was to used to stitch the two panels together. Will be returning to this to add some colour data but it might have to wait til next year.

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -10C

Guiding: PHD ,ST80 Scope, Lodestar X2

Optics: Altair Astro 8" RC Astrograph fitted with a Astro Physics CCDT67 0.67x Reducer. Reducing down from F8 to F5.3

Filter: Baader H-alpha 7nm,Astronomik CLS Filter

Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT EQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X and Eqmod via HitecAstro EQDIR adapter

Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking and Calibrating: DeepSkyStacker

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Microsoft ICE

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IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk nebula, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)

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