Nicola Beltraminelli captured this magnificent view of the Elephant's Trunk in Cepheus using his SVX180T. 

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 LY away from Earth. It 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 HD206267. The 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 (from Wikipedia).

"This nebula is among my preferred ones. As a matter of fact, it is fantastically rich of details with strong gradients of HII, SII and OIII emissions, thus enabling to generate an extremely large panel of personal interpretations of this wonderful dark sky object".

Nicola

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