Elephant Trunk Nebula (Ha)
Elephant Trunk
Description: Bright Nebula
Common Name: Elephant Trunk
Messier Catalogue: N/A
NGC: N/A
IC: 1396
Caldwell: N/A
Sharpless: N/A
Constellation: Cepheus
Size: 170.0 x 140.0 Arc Minutess
Visual Magnitude: +5.59
Distance: 2400 Light Years
Camera: Canon EOS 450D (H-a)
Canon EOS 1000D (RGB)
ISO: 800
Video: N/A
Light Frames: 7 x 20 Minutes (H-a)
Dark Frames: 4 x 20 Minutes
Bias Frames: N/A
Flat Frames: 30
Capture Program: APT
Stacking program: DeepSkyStacker
Post Processing: PhotoShop CS3
Date Taken: 25/05/2020
Image Type: Ha-RGB
Dark Site?: No-Garden
Telescope: Altair StarWave 70ED
Diameter: 70mm
Focal Length: 420mm
Reducer/Flattener?: Flattener/reducer
Mount Control: APT
Mount: iEXOS 100 PMC-Eight
Guided?: Yes PHD2
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