Lampyman
Elephants Trunk Nebula
The Elephants Trunk Nebula. It's been a very sparse summer for astrophotography with very few clear nights. I've had about 3 good nights this last couple of months, two of them were marginal, so I was very happy after finally getting yesterday evening with reliably clear skies and I did get this rather enjoyable shot of the Elephants Trunk Nebula. This nebula is huge, what you see in this shot is about a third of the entire thing and if you take the moons apparent size, it'd fit in this frame a good 4 or 5 times over.
It has a moderate brightness so isn't really visible to the naked eye (maybe just about if the skies were very dark and there's no light pollution, but likely only as being a cloud just off the main milky way) but with a decent size scope you can observe it.
Elephants Trunk Nebula
The Elephants Trunk Nebula. It's been a very sparse summer for astrophotography with very few clear nights. I've had about 3 good nights this last couple of months, two of them were marginal, so I was very happy after finally getting yesterday evening with reliably clear skies and I did get this rather enjoyable shot of the Elephants Trunk Nebula. This nebula is huge, what you see in this shot is about a third of the entire thing and if you take the moons apparent size, it'd fit in this frame a good 4 or 5 times over.
It has a moderate brightness so isn't really visible to the naked eye (maybe just about if the skies were very dark and there's no light pollution, but likely only as being a cloud just off the main milky way) but with a decent size scope you can observe it.