IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Bi-Color AT8RC

[Rudeviewer]

I haven't been able to post up lately as the weather hasn't cooperated much.  This is the first good data I've been able to capture for a while now.  This is around 8 hours of data of HA and OIII all 1200s subs.  I still plan on capturing the SII data but ill take what i can get for the time being.  Quickly and simply processed in Pixinsight and finished up in Photoshop.  I normally over saturate my images and this time i tried to leave it simple.   

Mach1 GTO, Atik 383l+, Baader Filters, Orion TOAG, SX Filter wheel, AT8RC, Lodestar X2, and the Williams Optics Flat6A .8x Reducer.

 

 

 

[Dave In Vermont]

Wow!!

That sums this up - WOW!

Dave

[Rudeviewer]

14 minutes ago, Dave In Vermont said:

Wow!!

That sums this up - WOW!

Dave

Thank you!!!

[Rudeviewer]

Does anyone think the blue stars take away from this image?  I kinda forgot about taming the stars down a tad when processing and was just looking back on it thinking they kinda do.

[tooth_dr]

I dont think the blue stars detract from the image, the detail in the nebula is exquisite.

[Rudeviewer]

I wanted to try to sharpen things up and make color pop a bit more so did a full reprocess.   I actually really like this second version.   

 

[Filroden]

24 minutes ago, Rudeviewer said:

I actually really like this second version.

Me too. The new colours really give it extra dimension.

[Rudeviewer]

with SII added.

 

 

[swag72]

The SII has really added sparkle.... Very nice indeed 

 

[RichLD]

Fabulous image!

[Rudeviewer]

1 hour ago, swag72 said:

The SII has really added sparkle.... Very nice indeed 

 

Thank you so much!!  I found that added SII to the mix makes processing a bit tough.  

1 hour ago, RichLD said:

Fabulous image!

Really appreciate it!