In the interest of shamelessly copying Marc, here's an M45 from Astrofest
I've been wanting to do this for a long time but I can't see it from my house and last year's Astrofest was too early in the year. None the less long nights paid off.
So here we are, shot on QHY10, Meade ED80, 3h 25min worth at 5min subs.
Side note: 5min subs were too long for this target. I severely clipped the center of the stars which for the first time has played havoc with my processing. But I learnt something interesting: convolution as a tool to make things blurry has a point, and there's a pun in there somewhere
Also there's a
1.6MB full resolution version for your enjoyment.