M78 Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula

[AndyThilo]

M78 Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula

Tricky one this as starts quite low but it'll be around for a while so hope to get her up to 20hrs at some point. Imaged over 2 nights but only visible from 01:30 from my garden.

 

• 148 x 180s lights - 7hrs 20mins
• 30 Flats, 30 Dark Flats, 30 Darks
• Altair 130mm EDF-T Triplet with 0.8 reducer
• ASI2600MC Pro
• Stacked in PI
• Background reduction using GradXpert AI Beta
• Processed in PI

[Nugs]

Absolutely love this, what a fantastic image. 🤘

[sinbad40]

Excellent image, reflection nebula are my favourite and this is on my list for this winter.

[carastro]

Excellent, the dark nebulae show up very well.  
 

[alan potts]

Superb image, really like it !!

Alan

[AndyThilo]

On 20/10/2023 at 08:07, Nugs said:

Absolutely love this, what a fantastic image. 🤘

Thank you

[AndyThilo]

On 20/10/2023 at 09:24, sinbad40 said:

Excellent image, reflection nebula are my favourite and this is on my list for this winter.

THanks

[AndyThilo]

On 20/10/2023 at 09:57, carastro said:

Excellent, the dark nebulae show up very well.  
 

Thank you!

[AndyThilo]

On 20/10/2023 at 10:20, alan potts said:

Superb image, really like it !!

Alan

Thank you

[Dan_Paris]

Beautiful rendition Andy!

 

Dan

[AndyThilo]

On 22/10/2023 at 13:21, Dan_Paris said:

Beautiful rendition Andy!

 

Dan

Thanks Dan

[ollypenrice]

This is going in the right direction! It's such a hard target to do.

Olly

[AndyThilo]

17 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

This is going in the right direction! It's such a hard target to do.

Olly

Thanks, hope to add more time once the moon and clouds go away

[gorann]

The image is already in an excellent shape! Will be interesting to see if 20 hours will make much of a difference.

[AndyThilo]

54 minutes ago, gorann said:

The image is already in an excellent shape! Will be interesting to see if 20 hours will make much of a difference.

Thanks, as long as I get good subs around new moon it should get the dust to pop more and tighten up the details.......maybe

[ollypenrice]

1 hour ago, AndyThilo said:

Thanks, as long as I get good subs around new moon it should get the dust to pop more and tighten up the details.......maybe

More colour, as well.

Olly

[KRYPTON]

Very good image for UK sky's, It's such a hard target to get a good image. I have tried about 5 time but nothing as good as yours.

Ken