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Elephants Trunk IC1396

Target:Elephant's Trunk Nebula, IC 1396, a dense globule set within an ionised gas region 2400 light years away.

 

Location:15/07/21, St Helens, UK, Bortle 8, no Moon, imaged during astro twilight.

 

Aquisition:70x 120s iso800 Total Integration 140min.

 

Equipment:Altair 60EDF, 1x Flat60, Skywatcher AZ-GTi, Canon 1200D (asto modified), Skytech CLS-CCD filter.

 

Guiding:Altair 32mini guidescope with GPCAMAR0130M.

 

Software:Astroberry, KStars, Ekos, PHD2 on RPi4.

 

Processing:Affinity Photo, Siril, Starnet++.

 

Memories:Originally planned as a two night project, decided to disgard frames from the first night as not satisfied with the framing from that session. Less data but a more pleasing framing from just the second nights data.

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Uploaded on July 23, 2021