Object | |
| Description: | Elephant's Trunk Nebula (VdB142) in Emission-Line |
| Type: | Dark Nebula |
| Constellation: | Cepheus |
| Distance: | 2,400 ly |
Image | |
| Date: | July 16, 2009 |
| Location: | Carlsbad, CA |
| Exposure: | Ha 15x10 (bin 1x1) |
Equipment | |
| Optics: | Takahashi MT200 Newtonian |
| Focal Length: | 960mm @f/4.8 |
| Mount: | Astro-Physics 900GTO |
| Camera: | SBIG ST-10XME |
| Focuser: | TAK MEF-1 |
| Filters: | CFW10A, Astrodon 6nm Ha |
| Software: | MaxIm DL, CCDStack, Photoshop |
