r/PeakAmazing

I recorded this on my dwarf mini with 60 gain, 214 60 second exposures and 154 30 second exposures and duoband filter. Utilized stellar sudio to denoise and lightroom for finishing touches.

The Elephant’s Trunk is IC 1396A, a dark globule inside the bigger emission nebula IC 1396. It’s in Cepheus, the king, high in the northern sky in the fall. OnIt’s about 2,400 light-years away. The trunk itself is a column of cold gas and dust about 20 to 25 light-years long. The whole IC 1396 cloud is roughly 100 light-years across.