Autore dello sfondo:
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 da cui è stata elaborata l'immagine
IC 1396
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- Tipo di obiettivo............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Fotocamera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16083
- Coordinate dell'obiettivo............................................................................................................................RA 324.2792 Dec 57.5
- Emisfero............................................................................................................................Northern
- Posizione del telescopio............................................................................................................................Spain
- Evento transitorio............................................................................................................................No
- Osservato il............................................................................................................................10 Jun 2022 - 03 Dec 2022
Filtro | Exp. media (s) | Esposizione totale | Sottoframe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 600 | 4h | 24 |
| SII | 626 | 4h | 23 |
| OIII | 574 | 3h40m | 23 |