Right up the Elephant's Trunk (VDB 142)

[steppenwolf]

Tonight I was struggling with my choice of widefield image because of the water vapour in the air so I swapped over to my 10" Reflector and took a series of 17 X 300 second images zeroed in on vDB142 which to my mind is the most interesting part of IC1396 which includes the Elephant Trunk Nebula. I used my Starlight Xpress SXVF-H9C camera and processed the results in MaximDL and PhotoShop.

[cygnusx1]

Sparkling stuff!

[MikeD]

Very, very nice detail and colour.

Mike.

[Albedo 0.39]

Stunning picture . Nice one. :hello1:

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

A gorgeous closeup Steve.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[centroid]

I like that a lot Steve, excellent result.

Dave

[CELESCOPE]

Quality image Steve, love the FOV as well , super stuff

Rog

[brympton]

You got that fine image with a Skywatcher 250px? very impressive AWESOME

[anthony]

Top stuff - not a lot more to be said

Anthony

[trevboyd]

That is a stunning image! Oh to be able to take 300s images...

Trev

[froggy]

Fantastic image and the colour is superb.

Vince

[FLO]

Saw that one on your website's home-page 8)

Beautiful!

[barkis]

Excellent stuff Steve. It is gorgeous in its content that image. I really like it a lot.

Well done indeed sir.

Ron.

[steppenwolf]

That is a stunning image! Oh to be able to take 300s images...

Trev

Hi Trev, being able to autoguide transformed my imaging pleasure by allowing me to take longer exposures and the addition of a good light pollution filter has increased the time before LP fogging spoils the party! Sadly, for these low brightness objects, long exposures become very important.