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The Elephant’s Trunk

Ron Brecher, taken from Guelph, Ontario, Canada

The emission nebula IC 1396 in Monoceros features a prominent pillar of dust known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula, many light-years long. This image represents more than 32 hours of exposure with a 14-inch f/11 scope in SHO filters, plus nearly 7 hours in RGB. The narrowband data was processed with a dynamic Foraxx palette, which uses a nonlinear combination of color channels.