Pleiades

[prokyon]

Hi folks!

The Pleiades, a starcluster, which is crossing a huge cloud of dust . This causes the wonderful reflection nebulae. But also in the further surrounding you can find a lot of dust. I tried to capture that.

Thursday I went to my place but after only 3 photos the fog monster captured me .

Some minutes before:

The next day I went to my second place, 1600 m above sea level.

Looks better now :

I could capture 6.5 hrs. Today I wanted to continue, but a lot of cirrus made it senseles to photograph.

So I show you my result up to now:

Done with Theli and PS.

Very difficult processing

Up to now I did 10x600s L, 10x600sR, 9x600s G and 8x600s B with the Moravian G2-8300FW and Canon EF200 f/3.5. I wanna redouble this exposure time at least.

Regards

Werner

[Carbon Brush]

What an amazing site. Definitely worth the visit just for landscape photos.

Nice M45 peering through the cirrus.

[prokyon]

Thanx, David!

[cloudbuster]

superb Werner....one of the best m45's i've seen....amazing detail, colours. by the way, my tiff file was too big to send in my m45 problem thread http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/165089-pleeez-elp-me-my-m45-processing.html

....thanks for offering tho.

cheers

bob

[Doug]

Hi Werner

nice images there mate ,would like to see more

Doug

[JohnC64]

Very nice images there - Also love the star trails of Orion in the first picture - always distinctive and one of my favourites.

Cheers John

[prokyon]

Thank you Bob, Doug and John!

[twotter]

Your second pic is really good with the glow of the LP below the clouds and red 'beacon' above

[laser_jock99]

Your second pic is really good with the glow of the LP below the clouds and red 'beacon' above

Yes must be nice to see the LP blocked by fog and be above it all!

[prokyon]

Yes, fog can be a friend or an enemy.

[prokyon]

Could not stop processing it...

Do you think this is better? Comments would be very helpful.

A crop:

Cheers

Werner

[FrankieValley]

Great images. How do you get the diffraction spikes?

[prokyon]

Hi David,

the spikes come from the aperture of the Canon EF 200 lens.

Regards

Werner

[FrankieValley]

Hi Werner,

Ah, I see. I'm intrigued now, what do you use to attach the EF lens to the camera? Such a great image.

[peter shah]

Another set of stunners, very deep 45 and the mist in the vally is sweeeeet!

[Celeste]

Love this target...it's so pretty! Gorgeous image

[Quatermass]

Thats fantastic you should be very happy with it I would be for sure.

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[prokyon]

Thank you guys!

@drg35660

you can get an adapter from Moravian.

Yesterday I started to test PixInsight. Not easy but very interesting.

I will show you my first PI result, after one day video tutorial studying.

What do you think? I will test it 40 days...

Regards

Werner

[FrankieValley]

@drg35660

you can get an adapter from Moravian.

Thanks Werner. Another great image. I like them all and can't decide between them :-)