Elephant trunk nebula - Oct 2022

Another attempt at capturing Elephant trunk nebula (IC1396) in Cepheus. This large cloud of gas and dust is a star forming region with many 'young' (~100,000 years old) stars. Use of Nikon Z6 camera with the full frame sensor instead of the cropped sensor ASI533MC-pro astro camera, makes it a wider angle image. For comparison, here is a photo of the same object taken with the ASI camera two months ago.

WO ZS61 - Nikon Z6 - L-eXtreme - 47x5min - SIRIL - PS


Elephant Trunk nebula - Aug2022

Elephant Trunk nebula (IC1396) in Cepheus. This star forming area lies 3000 light years away. The elephant trunk structure that stretches from center to bottom right is about 30 light years long.

WO ZS 61 - ZWO ASI533MC-PRO - LeNhance - 25x5min - SIRIL - PS