The Pleiades and IFN from Bretti

[AstroJason (Jason)]

Hi all,

After having 2 nights at Bretti which were clouded out, our third and final night proved to be a stunner. I pulled an all nighter to make the most of the clear skies and am very happy with how the first image I have processed turned out.

As they rose above the mountains they just looked like blue diamonds against an inky black sky which prompted me to give them a shot. Bretti proved to be a darker site than I imagined with no light domes visible in any direction. This no doubt assisted me in being able to show the integrated flux nebula scattered throughout the region.

What you see here are 30 x 3 minute exposures shot at ISO3200 on my unmodded Canon 6D. I used my Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens stopped down to f/5.6 to give some nice star spikes.

Higher res shot available here

As always feedback is appreciated and thanks for looking.

Cheers,

Jason

[Ross G]

A great looking wide photo Jason.

I love the colour and composition.

I don't know if it's IFN, gas, dust or a combination but I have imaged it also around the Pleiades and as far west as M15 in Pegasus.

Ross.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Really lovely mate the blue is shining through nicely. So the flux nebula is different from the hill fog?

[Octane (Humayun)]

Awesome, mate.

This will be one of my spring projects.

H

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice image, Jason!

[glend (Glen)]

Nice Jason., good to see more imaging being done at Bretti.

[Rex]

Beautifully done Jason. Really nice. Love those diffraction spikes from the lense.

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Very Nice Jason.
Thanks for posting.

[jakob]

Well done Jason!
Thanks for sharing.

[AstroJason (Jason)]

Thank you all for the kind comments. When I started processing the image I didn't think it would have all that dust through it (haha no Dunk it ain't fog!). A couple level adjustments later and there it was! Now I just really wish we had more clear nights up there so I could get more data on it and the other objects I have ready to process.

Loving this wide field stuff with this lens. Wishing for my time under a dark sky! Thanks again all.

[Moonman (Michael)]

Nice shot!

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Awesome one Jason! What a great result!

A dark site might just be the right approach for M45. I failed in suburbs last November and I'm looking forward to giving it another go.

Well done!

[AstroJason (Jason)]

Many thanks Rod and Michael. Yes, I think if you really want to capture the faint stuff you need a dark sky. LP will just wash it all out unfortunately.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent result indeed Jason ...not imaged this deep that often from Oz so well done.

Mike

[AstroJason (Jason)]

Cheers Mike, I hadn't thought about it like that! I wonder what a couple more hours of data could reveal.

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

Beautiful

[Phil Hart]

Nice work. That's a very impressive result and a good rap for the 6D.

Phil

[AstroJason (Jason)]

Thanks Geoff and Phil. Yeah the 6D really is impressive. Working on a cooler box for it in time for summer though.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Awesome work Jason!

Incredible amount of dust you pulled out in this image.

Cheers,

Justin.