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The elephant's trunk in a different palette.
⭐ This photograph is part of our signature series.
🧭 Where is it? View this image via World Wide Telescope.
Telescope:   Celestron EdgeHD 9.25
Length:   1645mm
Aperture:   235mm
F-stop:   f/7.0
Sessions:   1
Captured:   2022-07-13 to 2022-07-13
Lights:   109
Exposure:   120
Total exposure:   3 h
Ra:   21h 38m 22.2s
Dec:   +57° 26' 16.949
Size:   162.172 x 95.784 arcmin
Radius:   1.57 deg
Scale:   1.428 arcsec/pixel

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A detailed, close view of the Elephant's Trunk.
IC1396A is the designation for the Elephant Trunk Nebula: a dense cloud of ionized gas that has been compressed into a round shape from opposing forces of a massive star and several younger stars. The larger star illuminates the edge of the cloud and provides contrast for the trunk that curls at the end of a long column of interstellar dust. It is believed this compressed gas is forming into protostars.
The long curling trunk is cosmos gas and dark dust believed to be forming stars across a massive region.
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.

Objects in frame:

IC1396
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