Another vast emission nebula, located close to Herschel's famous "garnet star", the bright star in the upper right corner. Many dark molecular nebulae are embedded in IC1396, incubators for newly born stars.
The image is a narrowband composit of spectral lines emitted by ionized hydrogen and oxygen ( Ha:OIII:OIII = R:G:B).
Canon EOS 20D Modified Canon 20D mounted on a TMB 80mm/F6 + Televue 0.8x reducer/flattener. Halpha-filter: 12x600sec/ISO800. OIII-filter: 18x600sec. Calibration and stacking, averaging, color balancing, sharpening in Images Plus and Photoshop CS2.
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