This image of the Elephant Trunk Nebula is a stack of 61 4-minute exposures taken over two nights in Abbotsford. IC 1396 is a large open star cluster in Cepheus with a faint nebulous background. The bright star near the bottom of the image is the triple Struve 2819. The Elephant Trunk is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within IC 1396 - outlined in red in the top middle of the image.
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