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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Vikas Chander, Animas, New Mexico, USA, 15–23 July 2023

Vikas says: “I started out fascinated by the colours of the Hubble palette and narrowband imaging, but now find myself leaning more towards the RGB and broadband colour palette, thanks to images like this one!”

FLI ProLine PL16803 camera, PlaneWave CDK17 f/6.8 astrograph, Software Bisque Paramount ME mount  L 27×  PixInsight, Photoshop, Voyager

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