M78 - Casper and Barnard (blastrophoto)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: M 78 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071

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M78 - Casper and Barnard

Pictured above is Messier Object 78 (Casper the Ghost Nebula) and a small section of Barnard's Loop. I feel that every time I've imaged this nebula I run into some kind of strange processing hurdle to overcome and this time was no different. Last time I imaged this, it was near the beginning of my astro journey. I knew not much of anything and captured this target using narrowband filters.. not really the best for this target due to all of the lovely dusty stuff. At the time I was just happy to have imaged it however getting any natural color was such a pain in the butt and even after 20+ hours of integration I was meh about the end result. Fast forward to now and I'm much more pleased with how this came out.. The processing hurdle I had to overcome this time was a giant gradient caused by nearby star Alnitak. The gradient was half circles of rainbow reflection and it was not fun to deal with. I did manage to get rid of it but I still cropped the image because I felt that I had manipulated too much of that data to even consider it reality. So I hope you enjoy this cropped very much real photo of one of the brighter reflection nebulae out there!

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