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Elephants Trunk Nebula IC1396

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396, located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.

 

This image is the result of 48 x 300s exposures, captured using a ZWO ASI071MC Pro Colour CMOS camera, with an Altair Astro Quad-Band Filter, attached to a Altair Wave 115ED with 0.79x reducer and field flattener.

 

The images were captured using Sequence Generator Pro 3 then processed using Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop CC.

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Uploaded on September 10, 2019
Taken on September 8, 2019