Hi all,
Here's this years poke at The Pleiades. I think I'm finally doing justice to my setup and am paying closer attention now to both acquisition and processing. I've added a comparison for my 2014 and 2015 attempts so you can see my journey.
This year I adjusted and fixed my cables in front of the hyperstar for better aligned diffraction spikes from those bright stars in the cluster, and used colour data from the QHY12 (one shot colour CCD) and Luminence data from the QHY9 (mono CCD) in a single session by changing cameras halfway through. Colour in 3m exposures and mono detail in 2m exposures, total 113 mins. It's a very quick way to get a colour image with the detail & clarity you'd expect from mono without having to shoot separate R/G/B or narrowband channels.
Higher resolution :
http://deography.com/wp-content/uplo...Pleaides-1.jpg
Processing in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC.
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