M78, McShorle

M78

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
M78, McShorle

M78

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Hi  to all!

Around new moon in December 2022 and 2023  I tried to record M78. In 2022 I tried to record RGB in 2x2 binning but the results were not satisfying, so I did RGB 1x1 one year later.  Biggest problem in 2023 was the christmas ilumination around my house and the relative big light shine caused by night skiing of the skiing ressort behind the mountain . Background measurement of SharpCap gave me a relative short time of 20 seconds for all LRGB channels. Unfortunately, thin high fog additionally blurred the R-channel. 
Nevertheless, all channels were recorded in two nights. 
More fun was image processing using PI. Playing around with all the possibilities led to the fact that I was not easy to come to an end. Especially the stars in the RGB version were very blurry and not quite round and hence I decided to use the L-stars for the final picture. I hope, you like it anyway.

CS Georg

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M78, McShorle