Pleiades area - 100mm view

[+Derbyshire Dave]

Although it was clear last night, seeing wasn't great, so I set up my Vixen Sphinx mount with my Canon M5, and pointed the whole lot at the Pleiades area. Timing controlled by an intervalometer, 50 off 15 second exposures with 50 darks.

 

Processed primarily in Photoshop, lincluding using gradient xterminator because of the large moon effect, a little bit of noise reduction in PixInsight.

 

Click, and click again in Flickr for full res..

 

 

[+Graham]

That is a lovely wide field shot Dave.

That is also one hell of a lot of stars. 👍

[+Derbyshire Dave]

Thanks Graham. Just realised that should have said 30 scecond exposures, not 15. Need to get more light next time!

[+Glafnazur]

Nice image Dave, looks like you've captured some nebulosity 👍

[Guest]

Great shot! I think we have a tendency to use 300 to 400mm focal length for M45 but I like to try wider field shots of popular DSOs too.

 

However, this is a great example.

[+Derbyshire Dave]

4 hours ago, Sunny Phil said:

Great shot! I think we have a tendency to use 300 to 400mm focal length for M45 but I like to try wider field shots of popular DSOs too.

 

However, this is a great example.

Thanks Phil. Not what I normally do at all, but great fun to try, and learn from..