⭐ 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.
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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 |