Elephant's Trunk Nebula 2,700 years ago in Mesopotamia…
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Elephant's Trunk Nebula
2,700 years ago in Mesopotamia, Babylonian astronomers were recording the movements of the planets and tracking lunar eclipses. They compiled catalogs of celestial “omens”, and laid the mathematical and observational groundwork for modern astronomy.
At that time photons of light were emitted by the ionized gases of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, which I captured this month in the picture you see here. The nebula has been continuously evolving and emitting light ever since, in a vast region of star formation within our Milky Way.
I gave this one another go at processing just trying out some new techniques and found the result to be much cleaner with better colors & balance, so I thought I'd share!
Check out the full frame photo on Astrobin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/su2elz
Total integration time: 96 subs x 300s = 8h (over 3 nights... yay early summer!)
Equipment:
* Telescope: William Optics Pleiades 111
* Main camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
* Mount: ZWO AM5N
* Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate 2"
* Accessories: ZWO EAF Pro
* Guidescope: William Optics Guide Star 61
* Guide camera: ZWO ASI220MM Mini
Processing:
* Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
* RC Astro BlurXTerminator
* RC Astro NoiseXTerminator
* RC Astro StarXTerminator
* Adobe Photoshop 2026
#space
2,700 years ago in Mesopotamia, Babylonian astronomers were recording the movements of the planets and tracking lunar eclipses. They compiled catalogs of celestial “omens”, and laid the mathematical and observational groundwork for modern astronomy.
At that time photons of light were emitted by the ionized gases of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, which I captured this month in the picture you see here. The nebula has been continuously evolving and emitting light ever since, in a vast region of star formation within our Milky Way.
I gave this one another go at processing just trying out some new techniques and found the result to be much cleaner with better colors & balance, so I thought I'd share!
Check out the full frame photo on Astrobin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/su2elz
Total integration time: 96 subs x 300s = 8h (over 3 nights... yay early summer!)
Equipment:
* Telescope: William Optics Pleiades 111
* Main camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
* Mount: ZWO AM5N
* Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate 2"
* Accessories: ZWO EAF Pro
* Guidescope: William Optics Guide Star 61
* Guide camera: ZWO ASI220MM Mini
Processing:
* Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
* RC Astro BlurXTerminator
* RC Astro NoiseXTerminator
* RC Astro StarXTerminator
* Adobe Photoshop 2026
#space
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