IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in SHO

[eshy76]

Hi everyone,

IC 1396 in narrowband shot over 3 nights at the end of June and processed using the SHO palette. Despite the relatively moonless nights, I opted for narrowband capture due to the lack of astronomical darkness in the U.K. in the summer.

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, or IC 1396A, is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. It, and the whole of IC 1396, is illuminated and ionized by the very bright, massive star, HD 206267, just to the east of IC 1396A.

Captured with the ZWO ASI1600 + Astrodon filters, pre-processed in Astro Pixel Processor and post-processed in Pixinsight. 9.1 hours total integration time.

Full details here.

Thanks for looking!

 

[eshy76]

Having been clouded out for the last 2 months, I've taken the opportunity to reprocess some of my images - for this image of the Trunk, I've gone for the classic Hubble palette instead of the green original. The higher res version can be found at the link in the original post. Thanks for looking!