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IC-1396A - The Elephant Nebula

Telescope Equipment:
Mount – Celestron CGEM DX
Lens – Orion ED80T CF
Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider
Filter – Optolong L-eXtreme
Imaging Camera:
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Image Details:
Light: 62x180s
Dark: 50x180s
Flat: 50×26.31s (25,000 ADU ±5%)
Dark-Flat – 50×26.31s
Software:
Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture
Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching
Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars)
Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC,
Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop
Image Capture Date:
October 18, 2021
Taken at the When Pigs Can Fly Observatory