Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  Erakis (μ Cep)  ·  IC 1396  ·  The star 13 Cep  ·  The star The Garnet Star
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IC1396 - Elephant's trunk nebula in OSC, Gael Gibert
IC1396 - Elephant's trunk nebula in OSC
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IC1396 - Elephant's trunk nebula in OSC

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IC1396 - Elephant's trunk nebula in OSC, Gael Gibert
IC1396 - Elephant's trunk nebula in OSC
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IC1396 - Elephant's trunk nebula in OSC

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A couple of hours of integration for this second attempt at IC1396. I like the widel field view of this DSO. I'm still learning to use the Samyang 135mm at wide aperture (here f/2.8) with the Askar Color Magic C1 filter. They produce big star halos that are difficult to correct when they are over the nebulosity. Also I'm still having significant tilt. I've now secured the Canon ZWO filter drawer to the lens mount with an extra layer of tape, hoping it will help. This one is dithered and drizzled x2 to compensate for the massive 5.8"/pixel image scale.

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IC1396 - Elephant's trunk nebula in OSC, Gael Gibert