Of course the official designation of M78 is most often used. I have no idea how the name of Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula was arrived at but that is what is shown in Stellarium. This is one of my favorite parts of the night sky to photograph. The large area of red is part of Barnard’s Loop, a huge emission nebula that encompasses nearly half of the Orion Constellation. It takes a lot of exposure to show the dust clouds around the nebulas. The nebulas are in the Orion B molecular cloud complex and about 1,350 light-years from Earth. I was interrupted by two nights of clouds and last night I had to wait till almost 9 PM before the clouds went away, but then I got a good 3 hours on it. I’ve gathered images over two nights for about 6 hours of total integration. I’ve been working on this image for awhile now.
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