Let's Photograph the Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Deep Sky Astrophotography - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a collection of cosmic gas and dust within IC 1396. This incredible deep-sky astrophotography target is located in the constellation Cepheus more than 2,000 light-years away from Earth.
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In this video, I'll photograph the Elephant's Trunk Nebula using the Sky-Watcher Esprint 100ED Super APO and a ZWO ASI294 MC Pro Camera.
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[@ruspaul7436]

The music man! Mass effect always gives me goosebumps

[@gregoiresaintenac4406]

Thanks Trevor, another great capture for your collection ! great video like always.

[@LikeOnATree]

Wow, Trevor, just amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@autobahnmensch]

you have the absolute best astronomy videos on youtube

[@michaelwoodcock1476]

Fantastic image Trevor! Inspiring as always, CS.

[@theAstra_]

You weren’t kidding when you said photogenic. Absolutely stunning. Thank you for showing your amazing work with us

[@stefanxifl]

Beautiful as always. Great Video and i wish everyone clear skies 😉

[@mdfazil1139]

Wow, what a photograph! Elephant trunk nebula is Beautiful

[@beebebop]

Thanks again for yet another great video, Trevor!

[@howkre8ive]

Nice work! Love this journey you are taking us on!

[@RomseyReef]

I’m a total newbie and I watch your content and I’m very well informed with your information. Very impressed you conduct yourself in a positive and professional manner and I enjoy every captured image. 👏 I’ve been thinking on this particular telescope 120mm for my first and now seeing this amazing video I’m totally blown away by the whole experience you had and good job on an unboxing video. 🖖🇬🇧

[@rebulaastrophoto7502]

Trevor!!! As always... EXTREMELY GOOD VIDEO!!! I love it... and probably thousands of people too... You should make a video of your first captures... your beggining scope your first camera etc. etc. ...

[@lapelotacuadradavevooffici112]

Very beautiful work thanks trevor,was fantastic!

[@Lahirusameeradecosta]

Love your work bro.. Stunning images as always.. Wish you the best...

[@wahidurrahmansaadi4114]

you are my hero man...........loved every video and really hooked up with astro world.........

[@fantomfoto]

Awesome as always!

[@nancyricigliano19]

Wow, just beautiful Josh

[@acidsnow5915]

what a beautiful video! that looks so impressive! really enjoyed watching all of this :D thanks for sharing this with us

[@espritastrophotography9925]

Trevor.....great video. Glad too see you got your hands on an esprit 100. I have it on my losmandy G11. With qhy168c camera. Took awhile with lots of help from friends to figure how to attach ff since i upgraded focuser to a moonlite. But we got it. Using a filter drawer infront of camera for my LPR filter and Ha. Good to see Rudy lol. Your doing a great thing for the amatuer astronomy community.

[@DRL92]

Thank you. So grateful for your videos. From Windsor, Ontario!

[@JaknTV]

Stunning! I just bought my first modified DSLR, so excited to shoot all the faint emission nebulae

[@SCAerialsSteveCarpenter]

Very nice and informative videos, thank you very much. That is one outstanding image, well done!

[@astrophotonics9470]

Stunning shot.

[@supernova5712]

lovely as always trevor, ive been wondering if u can make a Q&A video for us, we'd like to know more about you lol , love u man

[@XPFTP]

i love APT.. software works great.. his come a long way with it..

[@markblundell4382]

Keep them coming you do some great videos, I always enjoy watching them. As for test images for framing, I always put the gain up to about 480-500 (ZWO asi1600mm) just remember to put it back down again, I’ve forgotten on more than one occasion ☹️

[@galacticus9845]

Thanks Trevor. I was thinking of investing in an Esprit 150 with a reducer. They seem to offer tremendous value for money and quality. Thanks also for the promo on the 60 mm Star Wave Guide Scope Altair Astro combo. I bought one for a Meade apo 80 series 6000 myself, rather than your 70mm Meade astrograph refractor and its a great complement.

[@gregorywilkins1001]

Love watching the videos. Just as I am ready to give up and take a hammer to the whole rig.. Your videos inspire me to try again....and.. spend a little more from my kids college education fund.. ;-).. Keep em coming, excellent work.

[@AstroWorldTV]

Awesome Trevor

[@nashariff5441]

Excellent!

[@stephanc7192]

Great video!

[@davepastern]

Another awesome video Trevor - keep it up! I'm very jealous of some your objects, since many of them I can't see from down under :(

[@epsyuma]

nice job! Well done!

[@imkeller243]

Very inspiring and a great picture! I just started into the new hobby (only visual for now because money) and can only dream of that setup and great outcome.

[@daviweigert8504]

My dream this Esprit! Great video!!!!

[@jmledesma2009]

Awesome!

[@ibustanut]

All your "lets photograph" makes me cry... Its so beautiful

[@xinvolume]

Now we all know what to get you for Christmas, a good 'lens cleaner. Keep up the good work.

[@anttik5764]

Great to have the longer nights back, even here in the far, FAR north! It's impossible to image anything except the moon and Sun in the summer because it never gets dark. Finally I'll be able to go under the dark skies, and image the stars!

[@ShubhamKejriwal]

You. Deserve. More. Subscribers!

[@hanshut8124]

Nice photo my friend. We enjoy it here in the Netherlands.

[@PavelValkoun92]

At the final image, I just went "WOW"...

[@felixzeng997]

I saw it once with my ten inch reflector under extremely humid b3 dark sky along with the heart nebula, some of the faint IC nebula are visible in 6 inch plus instruments

[@davidpickles8866]

Awsome!

[@minndxbmih]

and another great inspiring video !

[@AstroBackyard]

Thanks brother

[@karthikeyabhat1929]

@@AstroBackyard What is the name of the music at last?

[@NeAr1986]

That book seems very cool!

[@stl1929]

I would love to see u do a photograph of the ring nebula.. thats my favorite deep sky object to look at ..

[@Nottsboy24]

Great video and image ☺👍

[@adrock6965]

Just got my first good telescopes! Excited!

[@cdjames4246]

Great video

[@nicklazur2264]

Currently out shooting the Pinwheel Galaxy with my ZenithStar 61 that just came in today (first telescope ever), so this time I’m taking YOU along for the journey. 🌌

[@paulwood6729]

Thanks for another spot-on video. Could you do one on the pros & cons of reflector vs refractor? I guess for planetary work focal length is primary so a big reflector to the way to go but for dso quality is better so refractor is better & easier (no cool-down period, collimation, weight etc)?

[@augusto3645]

Awesome

[@HeerlenPete]

I'm relatively new to your channel and I really enjoy your videos and images. You have made me want to try astrophotography, but I am still a poor college student. I am building my own telescope, however, whenever I get the time and money.

[@MattWatsonAus]

Hi Trevor. Great video as always. I'm curious about what components you used to achieve the correct spacing of the flattener to the camera sensor. Also, how did you manage to get your duoband filter connected in the imaging train? What size filter did you use and how is it all connected. I don't seem to be able to attach filters to my flattener. Cheers

[@TheZ3roCool]

Great video once again. Really want to get this scope...most likely will be the 80mm version. Not sure how this would handle on my NEQ6 mount?

[@joshswan5353]

Amazing image Trevor!

[@AstroBackyard]

Thanks Josh!

[@mikew9788]

Rubin Kier's book is great. I have a copy signed by him.

[@Mobius3c273]

I increase binning to maybe 3 or 4 times at lower exposure to pull out stars near dim objects I wish to view.

[@gabewrsewell]

Just listened to the latest astrobackyard podcast, loved the topic! Had to look up the image of the guy who imaged Rho Ophiuchus with 1 second subs when it was over.

[@AstroBackyard]

So glad you enjoyed it Gabe. Your dedication to this channel astounds me. It means a lot:)

[@gabewrsewell]

AstroBackyard This channel means a lot to me too haha. Summer's over and I'm finally back in the game again, I just took my first guided image from a dark sky and I'm so happy with the result! I have a Lacerta Mgen II standalone autoguider, I'm so glad I found it because there seems to be almost no resources on it online. I'd love to see you talk about it on the podcast or use it and review it one day! From what I've seen it's one of the only standalones that are worth your time. Standalones are definitely so so convenient for guys like me with tiny portable imaging rigs.

[@haxefede]

Can you link that Rho Opiuchi thing? Thanks!

[@theresaclarke2638]

Gabe Sewell zzx

[@N4GW]

Excellent video. I just captured it the other night as well. What was the filter you were using?

[@Ethan_Roberts]

I'm considering getting a H alpha clip in filter for my Canon EOS 100D but would that be a bad choice since the camera is not mono? Wouldn't it just pick up 4x less data with a colour camera compared to a mono?

[@muddyexport5639]

Thanks!

[@jeffreyobrock]

WOW - TOTALLY AMAZING - I'm looking for a telescope myself and really like your set up. deep space objects is my passion. what is the music you have at the end of the video? Link?

[@themilkyounevergot8700]

What star tracker did you use with this telescope? Thinking about getting one👍

[@RaysAstrophotography]

Beautiful image Trevor. Love it. Came out really good. I liked the telescope, it is already on my list. Do you know this is the cheapest telescope in the high-end telescopes that are portable? One day may be :-)

[@nickminderman7380]

I know this video is a year old but which scope do you prefer the carbon fiber explorer 100 or the William optics 100 that you used in this video.

[@bendover-yr4oq]

Can you use a 100 to 400mm canon 4.5 to 5.6f or do you half to go this lens route and I live in a bortle 1 area

[@orionm4254]

Hey Trevor, can you do a video about comets? 46P/Wirtanen 38p/stephan-oterma.

[@Shimanskiys]

Hello from Ukraine! I love watching your videos.

[@GregSheard]

I’m dying to try out deep space photography and your videos are really informative which is great 👍 when I do finally get the chance I’ll do a video on my channel too 😀

[@drummingspain207]

Sheard Photography I can’t wait!

[@jcwillis4]

Hey Trevor, with that dual filter, is the final image just what you got with that, or did you add full color data as well? Thinking about getting the same filter for my OSC camera and trying to figure out what to expect. Thanks, your videos have helped me come up in my skills a lot in the last few months.

[@asaamv]

Iam so happy I subscribed your channel .. imagine the effort he is putting ... I welcome you to my country Maldives 😃 . To do night sky here ... Please ...

[@DeltaBravo55]

Please don't get me wrong, but i think i'm in love with you haha your work is astonishing

[@albertsmith5581]

Rudy rocks!

[@classroom3223]

What is the aperture of this telescope? And magnification

[@rumhead666]

Rudy!!

[@maxlooper2407]

Hello from France Astrobackyard ! What is the best 85ed you ever used?

[@meet1348]

I want to do astrophotography and I’m willing to spend the money. I’m a noob tho and only know how to use my dobsonian 12 inch to manually find stuff and look at lol. All I see is white fuzz on all the nebulae but I took a 10 second exposure shot of Orion and it looked spectacular. But I wanna do what you do lol but I don’t know where to start

[@herblapp]

Hi Kevin, been in astronomy since 1959, 7th grade. You are the consummate professional. Was planning to camp at Cherry Springs and hopefully meet you but we rained out. There will be another time. Love it when your cutie-pie drops in and makes a cameo. You two area cute-happy couple. Best Wishes...Herb from South Central PA.

[@SuperSnowman37]

Hi Herb, his name is Trevor lol

[@herblapp]

Oh drew from wrong brain cell...sorry Trevor...gee l knew that!! 😂

[@edstud1]

Do you have some surplus astrophotograpy equipment I could get to evaluate! I would gladly pay the shipping expense.

[@scott_meyer]

Now THAT's a mount....

[@dgasparotto]

Would you be interested in coming up to my cottage in Baysville? Nice dark skies. Just need to put up with some trees.

[@dummyjoe7895]

Can someone Help me, I’m new and want to get into astrophotography. I would like a decent priced telescope that I can view deep sky object with and take pictures with. Thanks!

[@DJRonnieG]

Ahh screw it, I'm buying the pier extension with my new scope. Looks like it comes in handy.

[@karthikeyabhat1929]

Please say the music at last

[@SantoshKumar-wu2zb]

I s zenith star is good for very deep sky astrophotography

[@freddyacosta2358]

Looks more like a giant squid and eagle below nebula 😂

[@jamesdougan8789]

good video ... ever thought about using a SCT and hyperstar at F2 ?????

[@AstroBackyard]

Yes! The new 8" Celestron RASA looks interesting 😉

[@jamesdougan8789]

i would surguest the edgeHD just for the versatility.... i hope celestron give you a big RASA to play with i would like to see what you can do with it cheers james D

[@foralfabase8539]

your website is cool👏👌

[@tommyboypackham9668]

I am at work!! Gotta wait 8 hours 😕

[@rachelbuckley7098]

Rudy is so damn cute!

[@rajvirsingh8315]

Can you photograph betelguese

[@theamazingbritishastronome2253]

Sky-Watcher 72ed or William Optics Zenithstar 61?

[@theamazingbritishastronome2253]

Looking for a small scope to use on vacation

[@kurtridnour1435]

Woke up at 4:00am. Couldn't get back to sleep so I started to watch your video. Trevor, can this scope be used to visually observe planets such as Saturn? Would I be able to see Saturn's rings? I want to get into astrophotography eventually but I want to be able to start out observing the planets also. Thanks as always!

[@FocusAstronomy]

Yes, it can be used visually, we use ours for both imaging and visual use. It is a fairly flexible telescope all around.

[@kurtridnour1435]

@@FocusAstronomy thanks, I really appreciate your response!

[@makarandpatil501]

😱😱😱😱😱😱😍😍😍😍

[@barqueomatic]

Go Habs!

[@Krispykleenex]

Yesterday I tracked Saturn with a 65x Newtonian telescope with an equatorial mount until I couldn’t see it anymore through the scope but I still saw it until I realized that I could only view the planet from my elevation truly a rookie mistake that I expected I kept saying oh my god and couldn’t believe I was seeing something with my own eyes that until now only seen from a picture

[@CodeLeeCarter]

Awesome, Work,... are you in a position to Photography the WitchHead Nebula? Our ship needs new injectors, so I can't actually go far ourselves, atm. Nanu Nanu.

[@vali69]

Xd

[@shylashreearun]

The other part of chart is southern hemisphere sky