The Elephant's Trunk - IC 1396

The Elephant's Trunk is a part of the larger nebula IC 1396. This pillar of dense star/planet forming areas is more than 20 light years long. Though it lies about 2500 light years away, if unaided human eyes were able to see it in our night sky, the Trunk would appear around the same length as a full moon. For a sense of scale, if you place our Sun next to it in this image, the Sun and all its major planets (including Earth) would fit neatly into one pixel.

 

OTA: PlaneWave CDK14

MOUNT: Planewave L350

CAMERA: SBIG STX-16803

GUIDER: Astrodon Mega MOAG

GUIDE CAMERA: Starlight Xpress UltraStar

REDUCER: N/A

SOFTWARE: Planewave PWI3 & PWI4, SGP, PhD2, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Topaz

FILTERS: Astrodon

LOCATION: SRO

COPYRIGHT: 2019 JKLOVELACE

 

 

SII 20 x 1200 sec;

NII 14 x 1200 sec;

Hα 24 x 1200 sec;

OIII 16 x 1200 sec;

 

Red 24 x 300 sec;

Green 24 x 300 sec;

Blue 17 x 300 sec.

 

Total integration 30.08 hours.

Binning 1x1

Camera Temp -25C

 

DSO Color Mapping: SN-HO-OH

Original Image Scale (Pix): 0.72

 

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