Click here to see a close-up of VDB 142, the "Elephant Trunk"
| IC 1396 in Cepheus
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| Location and Date | Taken at Little Mount Hoffman, California 9/2/2008 |
| Telescope | Vixen 114ED Refractor with the f/4.4 focal reducer |
| Mount | Orion Sirius EQ-G |
| Camera | Hutech-modified Canon 350D |
| Exposure | 23 x 600 second exposures |
| Guiding | Orion StarShoot AutoGuider |
| Processing / Software | MaxIm DL 4.58 and Adobe Photoshop 7.1 |
| Notes | Even with over 3.8 hours worth of total exposure under extremely dark skies, AND with a scope running at f/4.4, this nebula sure is faint! But I like its vast size and intricate detail throughout. |
