While wanting to make use of the super dark skies up at Coolah I wanted to pick something that I cannot do well from Melbourne. Given that I didn’t want to do ANOTHER M42, I decided to move to M78.
Only fairly limited data taken over two nights. I’ve probably gone a little over the top in noise reduction so I’ll have to revisit that in time.
A question for those more experienced, is the blue in the background and processing artefact or a part of the reflection nebula?
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