Hi all, it has passed more than 6 months since my last post in this group and since I was able to process a new image. Work and life prevented me almost any activity related to astronomy apart from keeping my observatory with running observing plans on clear nights. Furthermore, due to a crash of my home HDD I lost most of the fits and partially processed images, I had to recover the HDD of my remote observatory even if several images' fits were unfortunately lost forever. Lesson learned, I bought a back up NAS since then to avoid another painful experience like this to happen again.
So here I am, with a very popular winter target for the northern observers but not so frequently imaged in the southern hemisphere because of the low elevation it gets.
M45 The Pleiades
Full resolution image clicking on the bottom right of the page linked above
I actually never thought to imagine this one from Coona until I saw some images in this forum and one from a fellow observer that had an observatory next mine, which quality confirmed me it could worth a try. In fact all images I took had the object with a elevation between 30 and 34 degrees (the maximum height it gets on the horizon), so resolution is a bit compromised by the worse seeing due to the thicker atmosphere at low elevations.
I have tried to process out most of the details of this dusty area, so the look may not please some of you and I also had to fight a bit more than usual to correct for gradients, anyway I am very pleased with the result.
Once again the fantastic sky conditions of Coonabarabran surprises me, I would have expected to get a similar result at much northern latitudes than -31
I hope you will enjoy it, I have about 80 (!) images to process so I hope to have more time to dedicate from now on and to be a bit more active in this forum that I have been in the last half year..
Clear skies
Marco
but great news that you are up and running again 
