Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Hello everyone.
This is my very first “Hubbule Palette” image, taken with my monochrome camera and a series of 3 filters: SII, Ha and OIII. Total shooting time is 12h. All processed with Siril 1.3 mainly and some finishing touches with darktable.

I’m very happy with the result.

Lights (H-alpha filter): 18 x 600 sec
Lights (SII filter): 28 x 600 sec
Lights (filter OIII): 26 x 600 sec
Total lights integration time: 12:00 hours

Setup

  • Imaging telescope / lens: Takahashi Apochromatic 60/370 mm FS-60CB
  • Imaging camera: ZWO Optical ASI 2600MM (CMOS)
  • Mount: Equatorial iOptron Zeq25
  • Guiding telescope / lens: Orion Achromatic 50mm/162 mm
  • Guiding camera: ZWO Optical 290MM
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Very nice image!

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I’ll second that! Very nice indeed! I’m seriously thinking of getting into this genre myself someday — all these great images are really inspiring.