Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  M 78  ·  NGC 2064  ·  NGC 2067  ·  NGC 2068  ·  NGC 2071
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M78 & Barnard's Loop, Jon Rista
M78 & Barnard's Loop
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M78 & Barnard's Loop

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After numerous attempts, both when I first started astrophotography in late winter/spring of 2014, as well as in fall/winter, to image M78, I've finally managed to succeed. For whatever reason, this object presented a challenge on the three or four previous occasions I tried to image it. I am not sure why, perhaps because it is a large reflection nebula, and was not playing nice with my Astronomik CLS filter.

Whatever the case, at my dark site, I finally succeeded in gathering some viable data for a nice image. My unmodded 5D III doesn't get as much Ha data, and I have to process a bit more to bring it out which affects color balance a bit. Overall, I am fairly pleased with the results.

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M78 & Barnard's Loop, Jon Rista

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