Messier 78 - LRGB

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

Greetings!

I Finished a new project recently

Messier 78 - A nebula I thoroughly enjoyed finishing. As in never processing again. I love the Nebula itself as it is an extremely fascinating object, but because my RGB data was so bad due to bad flats and darks, it made this image really hard to process...I pushed through though.

This nebula is a beautiful reflection nebula amidst the vast hydrogen clouds of Orion. I gathered 16hrs of Lum data and 2hrs each of RGB. If I grabbed more RGB data I could really stretch the colors a tad more but overall, I’m relative happy with this one.

Equipment
10” F/3.9
Asi1600mm gain: 0 offset: 10
Cem60
Astrodon LRGB - 600s subs

Clear Skies!

[Adam1234]

Beautiful 

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

9 minutes ago, Adam1234 said:

Beautiful 

Thank you, Adam!

 

[carastro]

What a fabulous result.  What Bortle scale skies was this done in?

Carole 

[tooth_dr]

Quite astounding!  Your dedication to each and every picture you produce pays off.  This is a stunner.  I've never really been that drawn to M78, but this is whole you take on it for me.

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

4 minutes ago, carastro said:

What a fabulous result.  What Bortle scale skies was this done in?

Carole 

Thank you, Cara! This was taken in bortle 4-5 skies in Colorado

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

1 minute ago, tooth_dr said:

Quite astounding!  Your dedication to each and every picture you produce pays off.  This is a stunner.  I've never really been that drawn to M78, but this is whole you take on it for me.

Thank you very much! The kind words are much appreciated! I love messier 78, it has always been one of my favorite reflection nebulae but man it was hard to process!

[Laurin Dave]

Fabulous result..  well done

Dave

[gorann]

Like it a lot! Wonderful colours and great detail.

[Brian28]

That’s nice !  

[Skipper Billy]

Truly outstanding. 

[Mr_42tr0nomy]

1 hour ago, Skipper Billy said:

Truly outstanding. 

Thank you skipper!!

[happy-kat]

Gorgeous

So that's what my splodge looks like.