• Object: Elephant Trunk Nebula IC1396a in Cepheus
• Combined images taken over 3 separate nights in September 2022 from Vermilion, Alberta
• Skywatcher ED80 refractor telescope with 0.63 Meade focal reducer for a focal length of 378mm or F4.4
• ZWO ASI1600MM Monochrome cooled (-15C) camera with 7 nm narrow-band filters for Ha, OIII, and SII (Hubble Palette)
• Total of 33 – 10 min exposures, with dark frame subtraction and flat field correction in Deep Sky Stacker.  (330 minutes of total exposure)
• Aligned and combined in Registar and assigned to colour channels (Ha=Green, OIII=Blue, OII=Red)
• Starless image separated in Starnet, processed and recombined with stars in Photoshop CS5.
• Final imaging and contrast enhancement in Photoshop CS5
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Each of the images in this collection represent hours of processing after raw data is captured!  That’s the fun! (?)