Sweet Dreams

When I discovered this sleeping baby elephant, I was a bit disappointed that it didn't align with the Milky Way core.

 

A quick check of my compass confirmed that Cygnus was rising in the same frame, but a bit far to the right. This had me thinking though. It meant that another nebula was rising right above the trunk of the little dreaming elephant: the Elephant Trunk Nebula. How remarkable!

 

EXIF

Canon EOS R, astro-modified

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

IDAS NBZ filter

Sky:

Stack of 5x 45s @ ISO1600, f/2, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, f/2, filtered

Foreground:

Focus stack of 5x 30s @ ISO 100, f/2.8 , during blue hour

Done