Telescope: Askar 71mm Petzval Quad with Askar Focal Reducer & Flattener	Designation:IC 1396 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. IC 1396A is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the east of IC 1396A. The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays. The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now 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. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity. Wiki
Mount: Ioptron CEM25 P	Constellation: Cepheus.
Camera: ZWO ASI294 OSC with Triad Narrow Band filter	Imaged With ZWO ASIAIR
Guiding:ZWO 120 Mini Guider with Baader guidescope.	Type: Nebula.
Exposure Data: 40 - 10 minute sub exposures with Triad Filter.	Position: R.A. 21h 39m 06s , Dec +57° 30' 00"
Processed using PixInsight and PhotoShop image processing	Date: July 2021
Data Acquisiton, Reduction and Processing by Jim Janusz	Imaging Location: Roadrunner Observatory, backyard Palm Desert