Messier 78 RGB (David Redwine)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: LBN 939 · M 78 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071 · VdB59 · VdB60

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Messier 78   "Casper"

A popular nickname for M78 is "Casper the Friendly Ghost" , a reference to the American comic book and cartoon character created in1956. Actually the large bright profile feature in the center of M78 looks a lot more like Casper's pointy headed Uncle Stretch, https://casper.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ghostly_Trio#Stretch.

Casper has always been one of my favorite characters, partly because we are the same age.

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Red     28 x 240s
Green 28 x 240s
Blue    28 x 240s

For the last half of February I have been shooting M78 as my first target of the night, then switching to my second target after M78 gets behind the trees. When I shot M78 the first time in 2020 it was hard to process due to the marginal data. Having lots of good data made this a joy to process.

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David

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Title: Messier 78 RGB

Description: Cloned out a faint satellite track on the left side of the image.

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Astrometry.net job	5578102
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RA (center)	05h46m40s.240
RA (top/left)	05h47m29s.103
RA (top/right)	05h47m47s.327
RA (bottom/right)	05h45m50s.928
RA (bottom/left)	05h45m32s.655

Dec (center)	+00°02′09″.28
Dec (top/left)	+00°23′16″.48
Dec (top/right)	-00°15′31″.92
Dec (bottom/right)	-00°18′56″.94
Dec (bottom/left)	+00°19′51″.94

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