IC 1396 with ELEPHANT’s TRUNK NEBULA
From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Telescope Live with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Australia and Spain. One of the data sets I received, was data from the nebula IC 1396, located in the constellation Cepheus.
The images were taken with the following equipment (Telescope Live SPA-3):
| Location | IC Astronomy Observatory, Spain |
| Telescope | Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 |
| Focal length [mm] | 390 |
| Focal ratio | 3.6 |
| Mount | Paramount MX+ |
| Camera | FLI Proline 16083 |
| Filter | Hα:[OIII]:[SII] |
| Exposure time [min] | 470:450:460 |
| Resolution | 4.74″/px |
Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:
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