M78

Constellation- Orion

Right Ascension: 05 h 46m 54s

Declination: +00° 03' 17"

Distance: 1600 light years

Visual Brightness: 8.3 mag

Apparent Dimension: 8x6 arc minutes

Image info:

Date- Feb 27^th and March 12, 2004

Telescope/Focal length/Camera-NexStar11 GPS @ f/6.4, SBIG ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, autoguided in CCDSoft Ver. 5.00

Integrations = 11 x 10 minutes binned 2x2

Processing- Flats/darks/median combined in CCDSoft Ver. 5.00, curves and levels in Photoshop 5.0