IC1396 - Elephant Nebula in SHO (David Kennedy)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B161 · HD205196 · HD205948 · HD206081 · HD206267 · HD206482 · HD206773 · HD239710 · HD239712 · HD239724 · HD239729 · IC 1396 · LBN 451 · LBN 452 · LBN 455 · LBN 456 · LDN · LDN 1093 · LDN 1098 · LDN 1099 · LDN 1105 · LDN 1110 · LDN 1111 · LDN 1112 · LDN 1117 · LDN 1121 · LDN 1123 · Sh2-131

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IC1396 - Elephant Nebula in SHO

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IC1396 - Elephant Nebula in SHO

I have done the Elephant nebula a couple times with my smaller 4" refractor. This year I wanted to do it again with my 6" SVX152 at f/7. I think this is my best version to date. I used RGB color data to colorize the stars that were isolated with StarXTerminator on the narrow band data and converted to a luminance channel. This preserved more of the small stars and I think looks more natural than simply using the RGB stars.

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RA (center)	21h37m05s.190
RA (top/left)	21h35m14s.888
RA (top/right)	21h43m46s.705
RA (bottom/right)	21h39m00s.543
RA (bottom/left)	21h30m27s.379

Dec (center)	+57°45′12″.33
Dec (top/left)	+56°53′33″.52
Dec (top/right)	+57°50′37″.64
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°36′38″.51
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°38′37″.81

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