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Paul Mortfield & Stefano Cancelli |
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Vatican Observatory Calendar - 2010 |
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| Title | Elephant's Trunk | |
| Photo Credit: | Paul Mortfield & Stefano Cancelli | |
| Object: | vdB142 (van den Bergh 142) | |
| Date: | September 2008 | |
| Location: | Sierra Remote Observatories California | |
| Telescope: | RCOS 16" f/8.9 | |
| Camera: | Apogee U16M with AstroDon Gen2 Filters | |
| Wavelengths: | Hydrogen-Alpha (3nm), Oxygen-III (3nm), Sulfur-II (3nm), RGB | |
| Exposure Time: | 20 hours | |
| Notes: | This intriguing nebula in Cepheus has been a long time favorite to capture. 6 hours of data were captured for each narrowband filter, with a couple hours of RGB to provide proper star colors. The narrowband data was mapped to Hubble palette. Click on the photo and explore the texture around the "eye". | |
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