Elephant Trunk Nebula
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| IMAGE INFORMATION | OBJECT INFORMATION | ||
| Telescope | Epsilon 160 on AP900 | Designation | IC1396 |
| Focal Length | F/3.3 525mm | Position | RA 21h 36m DEC +57d 30m |
| Guiding | Internal guider | Type | Emission Nebula |
| Control | MaximDL | Magnitude | |
| CCD Camera | Sbig ST2000XM | Size | |
| Image Scale | 2.89 arcsec | Distance | 2,400 Light years |
| Filters | AstroDons RGB | Constellation | Cepheus |
| Exposures | 26 x 8 min HA 1x1, | ||
| Calibration | Flats, Darks, Bias | ||
| Software | MaximDL, Photoshop CS2 | ||
| Date | Chiefland Fall Star Party 2009 | ||
| The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust in the star cluster IC 1396 and ionized gas region located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The Elephant Trunk nebula is now thought to be site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003.
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