# Messier 78

- By: ESO/Igor Chekalin
- Date: 2011-02-16
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1105a/
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_78.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/4/4a/Messier_78.jpg/1920px-Messier_78.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This new image of the reflection nebula Messier 78 was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This colour picture was created from many monochrome exposures taken through blue, yellow/green and red filters, supplemented by exposures through a filter that isolates light from glowing hydrogen gas. The total exposure times were 9, 9, 17.5 and 15.5 minutes per filter, respectively.