NGC 1396 - Elephant Trunk
An expansive Nebula approximately 2400 light years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus contains gasses and dust irradiated and compressed from a nearby massive star. This has given rise to stellar nurseries throughout the molecular cloud which have blown away surrounding gas and dust into distinct shapes. One such nursery exists in the large globule at the end of the gas plume in this image. Two young stars have expelled gasses around them to form the hole that makes the eye of the Elephant.
Acquisition Details
Imaging telescope: Stellarvue SV105 APO
Imaging camera: QSI 683 wsg-8
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G (belt mod)
Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Loadestar 2
Software: Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Deep Sky Stacker (DSS), Photoshop CC, PhD Guiding 2
Resolution: 3948x4935
Dates: June 15, 2016, June 16, 2016, June 17, 2016
Frames:
Ha 1.25" 7nm: 25x1200" -20C bin 1x1
O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 22x1200" -20C bin 1x1
S2 1.25" 8nm: 20x1200" -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 22.3 hours
Darks: ~50
Flats: ~50
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
RA center: 323.856 degrees
DEC center: 57.697 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.6 arcsec/pixel
Sky Map
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