Here's my M45 from last saturday at Wiruna. 10x600s on celestron 5", QHY8 Gain 1 Offset 60 on G11 autoguided PHD/ED80. Flat and dark calibrated.
I had to work a bit harder in CCD Stack to remove some color gradients due to clouds passing but the program worked a treat. I still have fair bit of reflections that I still need to work out. I used the wrong filter during the imaging session but the focus and tracking was good. This shot is a big improvement from my previous attempt at Crago so I'm pretty happy with that one to date. I find it a difficult object to image. Hard to get that nebulosity up with all those bright stars in the field. Hope you like it. Thanks for looking.
Full frame at:
http://www.multiweb.com.au/astro/M45_f.jpg [3.6MB]
PS: There's a little galaxy side on in the full frame. See if you can spot it. My first galaxy
