Messier78 / NGC2068 AKA Casper The Friendly Ghost (Roy Hagen)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: LBN 938 · LBN 939 · M 78 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071 · PGC 147860 · PGC 3085072 · PGC 3085073 · PGC 3085074 · PGC 3085076 · VdB59 · VdB60

Messier78 / NGC2068 AKA Casper The Friendly Ghost

Revision title: Curves and minor color adjust

Messier78 / NGC2068 AKA Casper The Friendly Ghost

Revision title: Curves and minor color adjust

Messier 78 a diffuse reflection nebula in the constellation, Orion The Hunter, discovered by the french astronomer Pierre Mechain in 1780.
Charles Messier also included this object in his catalog of comet like objects in 1780.
I shot the subs in October 2023 at the end of two imaging sessions for the Iris nebula.
Instead of closing down the gear at 2.30 i the morning, I pointed the telescope at Casper to get the most out of the clear skies.
I´ve worked on the data quite a few times since October, but I never actually got satisfied on the result.
Enough time now as retired, and astrophotographer under cloudy skies I tried to improve the final image
The contrast between the dark areas and the low contrast Ha areas was especially difficult to process, and I also found the GraXpert AI to be to tough for this area.
This time the DBE worked better.
So I hope it is ok now

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Title: Curves and minor color adjust

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9275285
PixInsight job	C5UYSC23HV771VUR6KQ82G736K96VZG9
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h46m48s.55
RA (top/left)	05h44m22s.10
RA (top/right)	05h44m21s.80
RA (bottom/right)	05h49m15s.20
RA (bottom/left)	05h49m16s.70

Dec (center)	+00°04′55″.9
Dec (top/left)	+01°00′13″.3
Dec (top/right)	-00°50′08″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-00°50′21″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+01°00′04″.6

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