The Full Elephant

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In the constellation Cepheus lies a large area of glowing cosmic dust that is silhouetted by surrounding clouds of dark dust. This region is believed to be a star-forming area using materials like the particles that make up a massive column that curls at the end like an elephant's trunk. This is a wide field view of IC1396, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, processed from regular light and narrowband using the Optolong l-eXtreme filter.

Image details

Telescope:		Svbony sv503 70ED
Length:		336mm
Aperture:		70mm
F-stop:		f/4.56
Sessions:		2
Captured:		2022-09-06 to 2022-09-22
Lights:		127
Exposure:		180
Total exposure:		6 h
Ra:		21h 39m 16.5s
Dec:		+57° 32' 59.399
Size:		175.309 x 132.464 arcmin
Radius:		1.831 deg
Scale:		1.429 arcsec/pixel