Elephant's Trunk Nebula Mark II

[AMcD]

I have added further data to my image of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula in IC1396.  This now represents a total of 15.5hours of 300 sec integrations taken with a QHY8 OSC with an Optoplong L-Extreme filter using a TS152 achromatic refractor mounted on a Losmandy G11 from Bortle 5 skies.  Acquired using SGPro and PHD2, stacked in DSS and processed in PS.   The stars need more work and I had hoped to get the data acquisition to 24 hours but lost 8 hours of data to icing on the QHY8 when the overnight drop in temperature eventually overwhelmed the dew heater that keeps the ice at bay 😧

 

Edited November 6, 2021 by AMcD
Added correct version of PNG File

[MartinB]

This is a terrific image.  I like the colour resulting from the filter camera combo.

[AMcD]

On 08/11/2021 at 16:54, MartinB said:

This is a terrific image.  I like the colour resulting from the filter camera combo.

Many thanks Martin, that means a lot, especially coming from you.