Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  B161  ·  IC 1396  ·  Sh2-131  ·  VdB142
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sh2-131 Elephant Trunk Nebula, John Mart
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sh2-131 Elephant Trunk Nebula, John Mart
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Here is my SHO processed image of the elephant trunk nebula. It took me over three weeks to capture this due to an unusually large dust cloud that crossed the Atlantic from the Sahara desert and then a series of storms in the southeast USA.

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sh2-131 Elephant Trunk Nebula, John Mart