IC1396 Elephants Trunk

Rancho Del Sol Observatory · Camino, California

IC1396 Elephants Trunk by Ken Crawford

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Image Equipment Details

  • RCOS 20" carbon truss - 100mm FFC
  • Paramount ME
  • Apogee Alta u9000
  • SBIG ST402 Guider
  • Astrodon MegaMoag
  • Astrodon 50mm Sq Filters

Exposure Details

  • Clear/ Lum = 0 minutes
  • Red = 80 minutes
  • Green = 80 minutes
  • Blue = 80 minutes
  • Ha 5nm = 360 minutes
  • OIII 3nm = 360 minutes
  • SII 5nm = 420 minutes

Software Used

  • MaxDL 5
  • CCDAutopilot 4
  • CCDStack
  • Photoshop CS5

About this image


The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC1396a) is a huge cloud of dust and gas surrounded by a star cluster IC1396. The brightening of the rim is being ionized by the stellar winds from the hot, bright blue stars.

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This 2009 image is a assembled with the light energy from six different filters - RGB Ha OIII SII.

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