Wallpaper author:
Sean Davis
21 Aug 2021
IC1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula
The Elephant's Trunk is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the large emission region of IC1396 and the gas is energized by it's central star. You can find this large object high in the sky in the northern hemisphere in the constellation of Cepheus.
This image was created using several one-click observations from both SPA-1 and 2 and is displayed in SHO (Hubble Palette).
Dataset from which the image was processed
IC 1396
8 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16083
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 324.2792 Dec 57.5
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Spain
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................10 Jun 2022 - 03 Dec 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 600 | 4h | 24 |
| SII | 626 | 4h | 23 |
| OIII | 574 | 3h40m | 23 |