The Elephant's Trunk - A Newbie's Take

[Colorado CJ]

Elephants Trunk Nebula

This is my first "difficult" DSO I've tried to capture. I shot this last night from my backyard, during a half moon and with plenty of light pollution.

Stellarvue SV80 Access
Pentax K1 (unmodified)
EQ6-R Pro

64 subs at 180 seconds each shot at 800 ISO (total of 192 minutes)

Elephant Trunk Nebula by Andrew Marjama, on Flickr

 

[Eric Rose]

Holy crap! That is really cool!!

 

[GRHazelton]

Nice!

 

[WilmarcoImaging]

Looks good Andrew.

 

[removed account4]

this photograph and the others on your flickrstream are mind blowing
thank you for posting them here !

john

 

[DDTJRAC]

OP...

Dunno what it all means...but Nice!

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Spectacular. An outstanding photo.