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  IC1396 and the elephant trunk.jpg - Click here to enlarge IC1396 and The Elephant Trunk IC1396 is a vast round nebula at the north side of the Milky Way at Cepheus constellation. It has an apparent diameter of about 3 degrees and is located about 2400 light-years away from Earth. The Elephant Trunk, is a star formation region containing several young stars and due its name to its appearance at visible wavelenghts. The foto was taken using narrowband Ha filter with wanning Moon. Lens: Megrez 72 APO + FF 0.8x F/stop: 4.8 Exposure: Ha baader filter, 8 x 15 min(unbinned) Mount: Vixen Sphinx Deluxe Camera: Artemis 4021 Guiding: Throught WO 66 f5.9 with Meade DSI and MaximDL software Location: Serra del Montsec, Ager, Lleida, Spain Date: July 26st 2008 Processing: Calibrated and aligned with DSS, stacked with MaximDL and postprocessed with PixInsight 1.2  
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IC1396 and The Elephant Trunk

IC1396 is a vast round nebula at the north side of the Milky Way at Cepheus constellation. It has an apparent diameter of about 3 degrees and is located about 2400 light-years away from Earth. The Elephant Trunk, is a star formation region containing several young stars and due its name to its appearance at visible wavelenghts.

The foto was taken using narrowband Ha filter with wanning Moon.

Lens: Megrez 72 APO + FF 0.8x

F/stop: 4.8

Exposure: Ha baader filter, 8 x 15 min(unbinned)

Mount: Vixen Sphinx Deluxe

Camera: Artemis 4021

Guiding: Throught WO 66 f5.9 with Meade DSI and MaximDL software

Location: Serra del Montsec, Ager, Lleida, Spain

Date: July 26st 2008

Processing: Calibrated and aligned with DSS, stacked with MaximDL and postprocessed with PixInsight 1.2

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