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IC1396 & Elephant Trunk Nebula
Elephant Trunk Nebula
Date: July 2009
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Apogee Alta U8300 and Apogee 9 position Filter Wheel
Astrodon Narrow Band filters
Takahashi FSQ-106n
Astro-Physics AP900GTO cp2 mount

Filter Data:
Sulphur II (Red) = 240 minutes
Hydrogen Alpha (Green) = 180 minutes
Oxygen III (Blue) = 240 minutes
600 second sub-exposures autoguided by Astrodon's MonsterMOAG and SBIG ST-402

Total exposure time 660 minutes (over 10 hours!)

Processing: Maxim DL, and Photoshop CS.