Image by Matt Thomas details below

 

Elephant Trunk Nebula.

Image Data:

* Exposure: LRGB
o Luminance binned 1x1, RGB binned 2x2
o L 34x5m, R 7x10m, G 8x10m, B 8x10m
* Telescope: Stellarvue SV152 @ f/7.9
* Mount: MI-250 GoTo
* Camera: SBIG ST-10XME CCD, SBIG CFW-10
o AstroDon E-Series TruBalance Filters
* Location: Casa Cielo Observatory, Santa Barbara, CA
* Date/Time:
o Luminance: July 22, 2006, 00:45-04:59 PDT
o RGB: July 25, 2006, 00:26-05:07 PDT
* Processing: Taken in CCDSoft v5 using CCDCommander. Reduced, aligned, combined sub-exposures, Positive Constraint deconvolution to the Luminance, and RGB combine in CCDStack. Lab LRGB combine, selective bluring, contrast adjustment, and unsharp mask in Photoshop.

 

 

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