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IC 1396A "Elephant Trunk"
This is a cropped image of the “Elephant Trunk Nebula”, IC 1396A, taken with a C-11 SCT. The object is a dense, elongated cloud of gas near a bright cluster of stars known as IC 1396 in the northern constellation Cepheus which is blocked from view by trees at my house in LA. The trunk conceals many young protostars that are in the process of forming. The photo was taken by James Foster from his house with my (black tube) Celestron 11-inch SC telescope with post- processing by me. file: C11ofMASf7&Starizona0d7XFC-ASI2600MC-fullframeByJRFa3a.jpg Photographic Data telescope: Celestron 11-inch SCT (black tube) with Starizona 0.75X focal reducer (focal length= 2,095 mm)
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Astro-Physics 1200 GTO imaging camera: ZWO AS2600MC-Pro one-shot cooled color astro-camera . exposures: 300 sec X 17 (85 minutes or 1.4 hours). C-11 at f/7.5
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Maxim DL by James Foster with post-processing by Michael Stecker in Adobe Photoshop Elements . photographic site: James Foster did the imaging and stacking from his home in Frazier Park, CA (Bortle 4 at 5,000 ft elevation) |
 Wider field of same image file: C11ofMASf7&Starizona0d7XFC-ASI2600MC-fullframeByJRFa2.jpg |
