Accidental Jacques and Elephant Trunk

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Down in Cornwall for a few days with my nephews and had an unexpected break in the weather, so took out my imaging rig to have a go at the Elephant Trunk Nebula. Used the modded 100d at Caradon Observatory and my Super-Takumar 135mm lens. Was quite surprised to find a greenish streak across my image, I thought something had gone wrong with the stack at first.

About 38 minutes of 2 minute subs at f4.5 or possibly 5.6. Just stacked, stretched and boosted the saturation in DSS, no other processing. Dark skies make such a difference. I'll have another go at processing it later, and see if I can stack the comet properly and blend it in.

[Pete Presland]

nice when accidents like that happen! look forward to seeing the reprocess.

[JB80]

Yes, quite lovely pic in itself but then the added bonus of Jacques make it even better.

Look forward to the comet stack too.