M78, NGC 2112, and part of Bernard's Loop Wide Field (RonAdams)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: M 78 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071 · NGC 2112

M78, NGC 2112, and part of Bernard's Loop Wide Field, RonAdams

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M78, NGC 2112, and part of Bernard's Loop Wide Field

I fought with clouds, meteors/satelittes, and an unsuccessful meridian flip. It's hard to capture dark nebulosity shooting through clouds. From my vantage point the sky appeared clear. However my camera sensor can see a lot better than I can. I wound up trashing more than half my light frames due to clouds and I probably used some that I shouldn't have. The first image I processed had 9 meteor/satellite streaks running across the entire image. The streaks were going in all different directions. So I went back and trashed some more light frames to get rid of the streaks. Sometimes Deep Sky Stacker will remove these streaks and sometimes it won't. This time it decided not to. I went back and completely reprocessed my image. I did not like what I saw so I said ok sometimes you get an image and sometimes you don't and I just wrote it off as being unsuccessful that night. I had some spare time today so I completely reprocessed the image beginning with aligning and stacking. After much effort and time I did manage to come up with an image. It's not my best image of this object by far. However it is my first wide field image of this part of the sky using my new William Optics ZenithStar 61 refractor. For now it's acceptable to me. With all that said please enjoy my most recent image of M78.

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