IC 1396 Elephant trunk nebula

[MikeCM]

At long last the sky stayed clear enough for me to obtain 3 hours of data in 10 min subs of the elephant trunk nebula. The only option was to use my HA filter as this image was taken at full moon.This is the longest period of continuous time I have been able to image without guiding playing up or running into any other problems e.g. the dog getting caught up in the cables to my mount and cameras.

I'm still very much wet behind the ears when it comes to this imaging lark but I feel I am slowly progressing. I had a lot of problems controlling the stars in processing this image and any advise or comments would be much appreciated. I'm hoping to get an O111 filter so there is the chance of bicolour imaging as long as the sky behaves and there are no other pet related incidents.

[newbie alert]

Very nice indeed..love a ha image..its contrast..small stars..just awesome.. what's your setup etc?

[MikeCM]

Sorry my signature with details seems to have disappeared  I use an avx mount with wo gt81 scope and atik 460 ccd camera

[laser_jock99]

Great image, thanks for posting.