The Elephant's trunk nebula

Two hour's worth of 5 minute exposures of the Elephant's trunk nebula IC1396, through each of Ha OIII and SII OIII dualband filters. Captured by AstroDMx Capture through an Altair 60mm ED Starwave refractor with flattener/reducer. Processed in PixInsight and Gimp

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AstroDMx Capture gathering 5 minute RAW subs with the Ha-OIII filter

AstroDMx Capture gathering 5 minute RAW subs with the SII-OIII filter

The Elephant's trunk nebula

SHO

OHS

OSH

HOS

HSO

SOH

Gendler palette

Pixel math in Siril for the Gendler palette

ForaaX palette

Pixel math in Siril for the ForaaX palette

SHO-ForaaX blend

                             

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin