Well I finally gave up and accepted this is the best I can do... Probably not... This nebula is going to haunt me forever! (Pun intended) Messier 78, also know as Casper the Friendly (not so friendly to me) Ghost, or NGC 2068, literally tested me like no other nebula. The cloud formation in the middle is supposed to be blue and I struggled over five nights and 1,326 light subs and could never draw it out. I was able to pull out the marble countertop look that the Spitzer Space Telescope got obviously without the great detail that telescope has! It was the toughest nebula yet. M78 belongs to the Orion B molecular cloud complex and is about 1,350 light-years distant from Earth. I absolutely appreciate the chunks of dark dust lanes throughout.
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