108 minutes of the Elephant Trunk • VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control

Help Yourself To One Of My Ribs

posted by deathcow

2 months 2 weeks ago • 233 views

Here is 18 exposures of the Elelphants Trunk (vdb142) recorded from the observatory in Wasilla. I used an EOS 40D camera for this through an 8" APO refractor. This light travelled aboute 2400 years before landing on my cameras sensor.

vdb142 the elephants trunk

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Bad ass.

written by UsesProzac

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That's a spectacular image, deathcow! Well done indeed.
Reminds me of the new Hubble images NASA released a few days ago..
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/hubble_gallery/

written by EndAll

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Thanks, both. I did see those Hubble and am suitably blown away : ) Here is my full elephant trunk
http://www.pbase.com/mclemens1969/image/116390451/original

written by deathcow

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"Here is my full elephant trunk [link to picture]"

This scares me just a wee bit.

Beautiful picture though, dc.

written by gwiz665

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Wow.

written by dystopianfuturetoday

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Very cool! What was happening around the Earth when the light left the nebula.

written by videosiftbannedme

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Really lovely. Is the purple color really there, or part of post-processing?

written by dag

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Anything where these insanely, insanely dim objects show color can be though of as an artifact of processing. If you google IC1396 you'll see it portrayed in many color schemes, usually flat-out red. I dont think I've seen it like this before. Really I just turned up the saturation a lot as opposed to faking the colors.

written by deathcow

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That's a shame, because in my science fiction vision of the future, I would be cruising along in my space Winnebago with that as a back-drop, but I guess it would mainly be a lot of black, with little pinpoints of white.

written by dag

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Space Winnebagos have hyper saturation color drive. (Duh)

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