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# 306 | The Elephant Trunk Nebula

Appropriately named due to its distinctive appearance, vdB142, commonly referred to as the Elephant Trunk nebula, is a star forming region in the constellation Cepheus. Difficult to see unless under very dark skies with a large aperture telescope, vdB142 is embedded within IC1396.

From within the glow of Toronto, Stef Cancelli imaged the Elephant Trunk nebula with a Takahashi F102 operating at f/6 and an SBIG ST10XME CCD camera (HaRGB=240, 60, 60, 60 minutes).

Processing was completed using MaxIm and Adobe Photoshop CSII.

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