IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Imaging telescope or lens:Explore Scientific 102mm ED CF APO triplet ED 102 CF

 

Imaging camera:Altair Hypercam 183C

 

Mount:iOptron iEQ30 Pro iOptron

 

Guiding telescope or lens:Starwave 50mm guidscope Starwave

 

Guiding camera:Altair Astro GP Cam 130 mono Altair

 

Focal reducer:Altair Lightwave 0.8 Reducer/Flattener Altair Lightwave

 

Software:Stellarium, StellaiumScope Stellarium, FITS Liberator 3.0, PHD2 2.6.4, APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 2.43, DeepSkyStacker (DSS) Deepskystacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CC 2017 Photoshop

 

Filter:Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar

 

Resolution: 5424x3627

 

Dates: Oct. 10, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 33x300" (gain: 11.00) 26C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 2.8 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 1.43 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 2.31%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 6.25

 

Temperature: 22.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2304419

 

RA center: 324.002 degrees

 

DEC center: 57.491 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 358.714 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.709 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

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