Note: This is what you do when you can't buy a clear night. I took this image last winter and I decided to crop it to get rid of the glow from Alnitak.Messier 78 or
M78, also known as
NGC 2068, is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1780 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects that same year.M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that includes NGC-2064, NGC-2067
and NGC-2071. This group belongs to the Orion B molecular Cloud Group Complex and is about 1,350 light-years distant from Earth, of all known reflection nebulae, M78 is the brightest in the sky.
Information Credits:
Freestarcharts.comTelescope: Meade 6000 80mm APO Refractor f/6.0
Meade X0.8 Reducer f/4.8
Mount IOptron CEM40
Camera ZWOASI6200MC-Pro Temp -10C, Binning 1 x 1, Gain 100 Offset 50
ZWO EFW
75 X 300 Second Exposures W/Optolong L-Pro Filter
30 Dark Frames/Flat Frames
Total Integration Time: 6 Hours 15 Minutes
Acquisition with SharpCap
Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor
Guiding PHD2
Processed with Astra Image
Photo taken from Seven Lakes, NC Bortle 4.5 Taken on 1/30-1/31/2022
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