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Elephant's Trunk Nebula (VdB142) in Emission-Line
IC1396
Object
Type Dark Nebula
Constellation Cepheus
Distance 2,400 ly
More Info
Image
Date 16 Jul 2009 (Summer)
Place Carlsbad, CA
Exposure Data Ha 150 mins @ -10C
Ha 15x10 (bin 1x1)
Notes
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