IC1396
IC1396
Object | |
| Description: | Elephant's Trunk Nebula (VdB142) in Emission-Line |
| Type: | Dark Nebula |
| Constellation: | Cepheus |
| Distance: | 2,400 ly |
Image | |
| Date: | September 18, 2009 |
| Location: | Palomar Mountain, CA |
| Exposure: | SII 4x15 (2x2), Ha 8x15 (1x1), OIII 4x15 (bin 2x2) as RGB |
Equipment | |
| Optics: | Takahashi FS-60C Refractor |
| Focal Length: | 290mm @f/4.8 |
| Mount: | Astro-Physics 900GTO |
| Camera: | SBIG ST-10XME |
| Focuser: | Robo-Focus |
| Filters: | CFW10A, Astrodon 6nm SII, Ha, OIII |
| Software: | MaxIm DL, CCDStack, Photoshop |