I've just finished processing the data I captured last night, well actually early this morning.
The Pleiades was a beautiful sight to see and conditions were terrific.
This is a 45 min stack of 30 x 90 sec subs at 1600 ISO prime focus on a 5" refractor.
Darks and flats applied.
Mike yes I tried fishing line for the first time last night, I thought it might go well with M45.
I couldn't believe how quickly daylight approached, I haven't had any sleep in two days.
nope don't like it, it is too sharply focused and has those spiky thing s that detract from what would be a mediocre image, some of that furry stuff around that star look fakes to me and the blue seems to be missing. There are introduced artifacts and the tracking, well , seems to have been over corrected.........
But then I could say I am sitting in the cupboard because this shot is so amazing that I dare not show my face in public until I can at least show some thing that is 10% as good as yours. Simply stunning RB!
When I looked at the thumbnail my thoughts were oh no Andrew...what have you done....how my impression quickly changed once I opened the image..truely beautiful image Andrew well done again mate.
Now go to bed...we dont want you getting sick again....lol
Very nice indeed, "sharp and crisp" are the first words that popped into my head as I looked at it, then I noticed the two clouds in there! Very cool,
ill have to add this to my list of targets.
You must have been p late (or early) to get that series of shots!
gotta admire dedication to the Art.
wow, every now and then, I get gob smacked. This morning it was Damian Peach's re worked 360 degree jupiter animation and then tonight, Crotchety Rockety has repeated the dose!!!
Amazing Image Andrew, please upload the full version. The pleades is HRH's favourite object, she has even named trees in the garden after several of the individual stars...
I tried bringing out some more of the nebulosity in the M45 image.
Talking with Scott (Tornado33) the other day and he suggested to stretch the histogram a little more.
I was worried I'd start to introduce more noise but here it is with more nebulosity visible.
Some images I've seen around the net have exposures or around 2 hours so I suppose 45 min is a good starting point.
I'll do some more exposures and add to it like Houghy suggested too.
Absolutely stunning.
