Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  M 78  ·  NGC 2064  ·  NGC 2067  ·  NGC 2068  ·  NGC 2071
M78 - My First Attempt, Steve Eltz
M78 - My First Attempt
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M78 - My First Attempt

M78 - My First Attempt, Steve Eltz
M78 - My First Attempt
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M78 - My First Attempt

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This is my first attempt at this object! This is definitely one of my favorite objects in the sky. I have wanted to image this ever since I started astrophotography. I finally was able to capture it! This image is comprised of data captured over many nights the first quarter of 2021. Due to the trees around my property, i could only get around 1.5 hours per night. I combined sub exposures using the Optolong L-Pro filter as well as some with no filter at all. I was able to get a total 12 hours on this target. All sub exposures were 180 seconds long and taken in a Bortle 5 zone. Hope you like my version of this awesome target!

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M78 - My First Attempt, Steve Eltz