Imaging telescopes or lenses: Lacerta Photonewton
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher 9x50 finder
Guiding cameras: Lacerta MGEN
Software: Photoshop · Pleiades Astrophoto, S.L. Pix Insight · APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 3.13
Filters: Astronomik LRGB 31mm
Accessory: Skywatcher/Lacerta GPU comacorrector
Dates:Feb. 5, 2019
Frames: 67x180"
Integration: 3.4 hours
Avg. Moon age: 0.56 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.35%
Astrometry.net job: 2533688
RA center: 5h 46' 51"
DEC center: +0° 7' 44"
Pixel scale: 1.568 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 0.422 degrees
Field radius: 0.624 degrees
Resolution: 2306x1703
Locations: my little astrofarm, Weppersdorf, Austria
Data source: Traveller
M78 is a complex of reflection nebulae, dark clouds hiding stellar nurseries and patches of emission, including Herbig-Haros and one of the prominent variable nebulas, McNeil's. So much variable indeed, that was not visible at all at the time of these exposures. The M78 complex is one of the brightest reflection nebulas, easily seen in a small telescope. Amazing to see how much detail appear with fair resolution.
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