Elephant's Trunk Nebula and its locality (IC1396): My first attempt to adapt a thirty years old 90mm f2.8 macro lens to an astro camera. 4 nights in Feb-March '26, total exposure 3 hrs 37 min, narrowband Ha-Oiii filter, processed in Siril.
The bright red star on the outer edge of the nebula at 4 o'clock is Mu Cephei, William Herschel's Garnet Star, one of the largest stars in our galaxy.
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Elephant's Trunk Nebula
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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.

I captured this object one time already, but didn't get too much exposure time. This time however, I was able to get much more detail.

Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da
Filter: Altair Tri-Band
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5-GT
Guiding: Svbony SV165 with ZWO ASI224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro
Integration time: 5hrs 40min

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