The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Imaged by many, but never looks quite the same. This is one of my major projects on ASI 183, as I got it early this year. Finally got the full field processed. There was bloating, mist and freezing temperatures when this one was imaged. I always took a little more light different nights, when waiting another target. Ended up with combined 20h of light. I really do like where I landed, but this image was one of the reasons I ordered astrodon narrowband filters. The star PFS is not uniform with different baader NB filters.

Voyager worked great, but I have come to conclusion that with my system I get better focus with robostar. These images were taken with localfield autofocus.

Esprit 80mm

Asi 183 pro mono

Baader NB filters

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Well done Jukka. Localfield need flat field and low tilt or you need to crop the field. In case of tilt localfield can become not really best solution