The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.
The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light.

The Elephant's Trunk nebula is thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003 (WIKI)

Hubble color mapped S2-Ha-O3 as RGB

HA - 8.5 HRS (BIN1)
S2 O3 - 2 Hrs each (Bin 2)


Total of 12.5 Hrs.

12" Classic Meade LX200 with F7.5 Starizona corrector.

Mount - ASA DDM 60 PRO
NO GUIDING :)
Camera - SBIG ST8300M with BAADER filters.
Imaged from my home observatory in Gan-Yavne, Israel