M45 - The Pleiades

[Dann]

I wasn’t going to share this as it doesn’t really stand up to the many fantastic M45 images on the forum. Although I have some spare time at work today so ill throw it up.

I found this really challenging to process, especially getting rid of gradient without cutting out the nebulosity but this is as good as I could get it. Coma is a problem for me, especially with larger targets but a Skywatcher coma corrector is on the shopping list

14 x 300sec

darks/flats/bias

Ta

[foundaplanet]

Good one Dann

[bigal1]

Looking good there Dan plenty of nebulosity

[A320Flyer]

Dan,

Thats a nice image. I like the scattering of diffraction spikes.

Bill

[Polar Bear]

Looks good to me Dann

I was studying them last night and the field through my bins is very similar to your image.

I never tire of looking at them.

Paul

[ollypenrice]

Oh, come on, that has a real charm and sparkle to it! OK there's coma but you will get on top of that with the corrector. The cluster stars are not even slightly blown yet you have a good bit of nebulosity. More exposures would reduce the noise. We are getting used to these deep M45s but the one I posted recently had a quick 11 hours of data. You are doing well with this.

Olly

[Aniol1349]

really nice photo..nice and sharp detail

[cloudbuster]

that really is a lovely M45 image....to my eyes, by any standard.

[peter shah]

glad you posted it, very nicely done

[saturn10]

Looks like a postcard, well done.

[SunStealer]

I'd be chuffed to bits if I ended up with an image like that!