M78 Ha LRGB - a Fun Story (John Noble)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 51 b Ori · 56 Ori · LBN 933 · LBN 934 · LBN 938 · LBN 939 · M 78 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071 · NGC 2112 · PK204-13.1 · The star 51Ori · The star 56Ori · VdB59 · VdB60 · VdB62

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I've been working on a project in Orion and Monoceros for a month or so now with M78 as one of the targets. It's a gamble for my Bortle 7 back yard but I wanted to give it a try. Well the first image here is the result of 1 hour each of RGB, 2 hours of luminance and 4 hours of Ha. Far worse than meh!! So I was thinking need more time etc etc then I thought I know I've shot this before from a dark site and I combed through the archive and to my total surprise found the second image. I think this was taken around 2007 from the Cincinnati Observatories dark site at Stonelick State Park. Scope was an E160 camera was STL11000, it's a bit dated but I smiled when I saw it! Nice bit of irony, moving on to the cone nebula now I definitely don't have a good dark site picture of that. Going to give up on reflection nebula from the back yard now!!!!

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Description: M78 Shot in circa 2007 from Stonelick State pack outside Cincinnati not sure of the exposures but I'd guess 6 by 300 s each for RGB and 12 by 600 s for Ha. The benefits of a fast scope and Bortle 4 skies!!!

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RA (center)	05h48m46s.19
RA (top/left)	05h56m18s.78
RA (top/right)	05h41m10s.43
RA (bottom/right)	05h41m12s.73
RA (bottom/left)	05h56m21s.16

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Dec (top/left)	+01°51′21″.4
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Dec (bottom/left)	-00°38′21″.3

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