LDN 1622, Barnard's Loop and M78 HaRGB (Markice Stephenson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 56 Ori · LBN 933 · LBN 934 · LBN 938 · LBN 939 · LBN 955 · LDN 1617 · LDN 1621 · LDN 1622 · LDN 1630 · M 78 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071 · NGC 2112 · PK204-13.1 · The star 56Ori · VdB59 · VdB60 · VdB62 · VdB63

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LDN 1622, Barnard's Loop and M78 HaRGB

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LDN 1622, Barnard's Loop and M78 HaRGB

I hope the pixel peepers don't have too much fun with this one! It took me 27 hours over 19 nights to finish this one. The bottom right panel has some slight drift, if it can even be made out. I dithered the H-alpha subs every 5 and the RGB every 1. The RGB took so long to finish because it took almost 2-3 minutes just to settle my mount after dither and I couldn't figure out why, so I just went on with the project even though it took longer than normal. Just wanted to get this done because I've been working on it since November 2021. Still have >10 of unused Ha data! Initially messed up the framing and had a gap in the middle of the two panels. I never bothered to stitch them together for this upload, but I might for a future revision.

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RA (center)	05h51m15s.32
RA (top/left)	05h44m49s.10
RA (top/right)	05h45m09s.49
RA (bottom/right)	05h57m41s.10
RA (bottom/left)	05h57m21s.28

Dec (center)	+00°49′02″.3
Dec (top/left)	+03°12′10″.6
Dec (top/right)	-01°37′40″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	-01°34′27″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+03°15′50″.2

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