Wallpaper author:
    Thomas Peter

    30 Mar 2026

    Messier 78

    Here's my take on a great data set published by Bernard Miller in Telescope Live. It was taken with his CDK17 and is 21 hours of total exposure time.

    M 78 is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion lying about 1,300 light-years from Earth.

    Hope ya like it!

    Tom

    Dataset from which the image was processed

    M78

    20 credit

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    • Type of target
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      Reflection Nebula
    • Camera
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      FLI Proline PL16803
    • Target coordinates
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      RA 86.6908 Dec 0.0792
    • Hemisphere
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      Northern
    • Telescope location
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      United States of America
    • Transient event
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      No
    • Observed on
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      14 Dec 2020 - 13 Jan 2021
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    Total Exposure
    Subframes
    Luminance17059h19
    Red7584h19
    Green7584h19
    Blue8004h18

    Messier 78