I recently completed this new image of IC1396, the “Elephant’s Trunk Nebula” using narrowband filters and the fairly short focal length Star71 telescope.  Another version of this, from almost a year ago, was done at much higher magnification and shows just the portion that gives the nebula its name – the top center of this image. The bright red star in the lower left corner is known as the “Garnet Star” and it really is very red, but its appearance is a bit of a fluke in this image:  As is always the case with narrowband images, the colors in […]