IC1396 Elephants Trunk Nebula, 25 October 2017

[The Thing]

Never done this before. I am still trying to get my scopes collimation right as well as the distance for the KomaKorr coma corrector, this was a 'lets have a go' capture so I didn't do flats and re-used some old ones which is not really a good thing. I've tried to make the stars a little less dominant but there's just so many of them! And who knows why the right hand side is magenta not red :}

Image date, time and location:   2017-10-25 23:00 Manche, France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:   Teleskop Service TS1506UNC 6" f4, TS KomakorrF4
Camera and filters used:   Canon1100D defiltered, Astronomik UV/IR Cut Clip Filter
Processing applied:   Pixinsight BatchPreprocessing, PhotometricColorCalibration, Multiscale Transform, Arcsinh Stretch, SCNR, GIMP

[ApophisAstros]

Amazing Duncan, is that really a 12mp sensor on that camera. So much more detail than my 24mp 750D!
Just one sub?
Roger

[Carole]

Amazing detail for a DSLR.  Lots of nice colours, well done.

Carole

[JohnP]

Very nice wide field Duncan - you seem to have got your setup/ processing sorted & are bagging some really nice images now. Maybe just a 'tad' over saturated on my monitor - the yellow stars look very yellow - that's a super image though - John

[MarkS]

Excellent Duncan.

You've got some fine detail there.  You seem to have a strange yellow to purple gradient.  If you can cure that it will be a fantastic image.

Mark

[The Thing]

A rehash of the colour. the major difference is the use of DynamicBackgroundExtraction at the start of Post-processing.


17x300s (85mins) @iso1600
Image date, time and location:   2017-10-25 23:00 Manche, France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:   Teleskop Service TS1506UNC 6" f4, TS KomakorrF4
Camera and filters used:   Canon1100D defiltered, Astronomik UV/IR Cut Clip Filter
Processing applied:   Pixinsight BatchPreprocessing, DBE, MorphologicalTransformation, PhotometricColorCalibration, DynamicCrop, Arcsinh Stretch, AdaptiveStretch, MultiScaleMedianTransform, SCNR, Auto colour balance in GIMP 2.9.6 dev which handles 32bit files.