Elephant Trunk IC1396A 8.7.13

Took this back on the 8th but didn't get around to processing it until tonight. I'm so used to seeing this as a narrow band image in the Hubble Palette which always looks so ethereal and otherworldly but I'm not convinced it works as well as an RGB target. Decided to have a pop anyway....

Fantastic image. Do you take all your images from Dundrum?! Sick of carting everything to Wicklow:(

Fantastic image in RGB, I might attempt to get some narrowband of this and do a Hubble Pallette composition after I've finished with the Bubble, wasn't impressed with the Hubble Pallette of Bubble but I think I need to get more Narrowband data, I was pleasantly suprised at the difference between a single 1800S shot in HA and then 4x1800S shots of bubble in 7nm HA, totally made a difference

Tony wrote: Fantastic image. Do you take all your images from Dundrum?! Sick of carting everything to Wicklow:(

Thanks Tony - yes I take all images from Dundrum - I refuse to move anything anymore!! I would at some stage love to test the whole rig somewhere darker but I just don't think I could justify the effort of dragging everything down for one night and losing my current alignment in the process.

CarlightExpress wrote: Fantastic image in RGB, I might attempt to get some narrowband of this and do a Hubble Pallette composition after I've finished with the Bubble, wasn't impressed with the Hubble Pallette of Bubble but I think I need to get more Narrowband data, I was pleasantly suprised at the difference between a single 1800S shot in HA and then 4x1800S shots of bubble in 7nm HA, totally made a difference

Thanks Simon - yes those 30min subs are very impressive, fantastic detail - there have been some nice results posted around the place with them recently. Takes a steely nerve though given how little imaging time we get with our skies!

stang wrote: Thanks Tony - yes I take all images from Dundrum - I refuse to move anything anymore!! I would at some stage love to test the whole rig somewhere darker but I just don't think I could justify the effort of dragging everything down for one night and losing my current alignment in the process.

I can relate to that, in Ballicollig, I probably have far less LP than Dundrum, but everything is perfectly lined up on the Pier