Elephant's Trunk IC1396

[old_eyes]

I have been collecting narrowband data on this off and on for most of the year (too many cloudy nights!). Just added some final data with the return of astro darkness, and this is what I have got so far.

Data from my obsy in North Wales - Esprit 120 with Atik 460ex on a Mesu 200.

[Tangoringo]

Have just been doing the same over the last few, very pleasant, nights. You’ve captured some nice detail in the trunk. Top stuff.👍🏻

[newbie alert]

Nice split on the double star... Nice work

[Stuf1978]

Nicely done 👍

[Shibby]

Very nice! How much data have you got? I would like to see it with a little less noise reduction applied if possible, particularly to the areas with more signal.

[old_eyes]

17 hours ago, Shibby said:

Very nice! How much data have you got? I would like to see it with a little less noise reduction applied if possible, particularly to the areas with more signal.

Quite a lot of data, but in variable skies - 7.5 hrs Ha, 6 hrs O3, 6.7 hrs S2 - all in 5 min subs.

This is a version without any post stretch denoising. I always use EZ DeNoise on individual master light frames after cropping and dynamic background extraction and before any stretching. The bulk of the noise is colour noise which I was happy to reduce.