[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Thanks Steve, yes I found that little open cluster fascinating and it definitely screams out for a longer scope treatment.

Originally Posted by Tinderboxsky

Nice image Simon. The Southern Pleiades are one of my favourite visual targets.
You can see the much fainter open cluster, Mel 101 towards the upper right hand corner. The cluster of faint points of light provide a visual contrast to the bright stars of the Southern Pleiades.

Ta!!

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Beautiful

Thanks Colin, I remember imaging this with my 40D early on in my adventures and always thought the object had great potential. Maybe one day I'll do it good justice..

Originally Posted by Atmos

Really nice Simon

Ta Andy, glad you like the colours

Originally Posted by Andy01

As mentioned elsewhere, that's a lovely image.
A dense rich starfield with natural colours.
Doesn't have the famous nebulousity of it's more famous cousin M45 but still a great target regardless- well done!

Hmm Rick, there's a common thread here! Cant wait to use that new PI tool though..

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice star colours, Simon.

Great to hear your compliment Gregg!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A very pleasing image Simmon.
Greg

Thanks to you David, still waiting for you to reprocess it for me involuntarily??

Originally Posted by DJT

Great image, Simon
That starfield as a backdrop to the open cluster is quite something and the colours are well balanced.

Thanks Marc, yes the short subs and better collimation of my scope helped. But now my mirror is filthy again and my pulling apart didn't quite work. So I'm now tweaking the setup on my new 10 inch scope

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great highres. The field is beautifully resolved.

Thanks Paul, go get her yourself now!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Striking colours Simon. I have not seen many images of this cluster. Back ground looks good too.

Thanks Mike. I'll see what I can do soon.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Wow, that's really quite lovely Simmon, great stuff, like blue Sapphires lying on sand. If I may make a single simple suggestion, some of the cluster star cores have been flattened slightly so they have lost their intensity and sparkle, if you re-intensify these, I recon the image will look even better

Mike

Wow thanks M&T. You need to get 101 in your sights! Not sure what you mean by the black point? You mean drag the histogram a bit more over to have the dark less to the right?

Originally Posted by Placidus

Hi, Simon,

A beautiful shot. We had to look up that gorgeous rich cluster (Melotte 101) toward the top right, which has some exquisite colours.

You can raise the black point by pretty close to 9000 counts (16 bit) without losing any data, and the result absolutely sparkles.

Best,
Mike and Trish