MAPOW Nr 6: The Elephant Trunk
Cepheus is a quite dim constellation in the northern sky; despite its dimness it is full of sky treasures.
One of them is the large IC 1396 nebula, which contains the famous vdB 142 dark nebula, best known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula.
This narrowband image was caught with a William Optics FLT 110 with my SBIG ST2000XM camera and a Baader Hα filter, from a heavily light polluted sky and under a very bright full Moon.
vdB 142, The Elephant Trunk Nebula
| Date and location | August 29th and 30th 2015 |
| Sensor | SBIG ST2000XV with Baader Hα 7nm filter |
| Telescope | William Optics FLT 110 |
| Mount | 10Micron GM1000 HPS |
| Exposure | Baader Planetarium Hα 7nm: 72x600" binning 1 |
| Total exposure | 12 hours |
| Author | Edoardo Luca Radice |
| Notes | Processing: PixInsight 1.8 |