M45 Pleiades widefield

[trevboyd]

Taken with Canon 350D and 200mm f/2.8L piggybacked on SkyWatcher 120mm refractor, EQ5, manually tracked. Stack of 3x15s and 4x20s, f/4.5, ISO-1600. Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker and tweaked in PhotoShop CS2.

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Any comments welcome!

Trev

[barkis]

Ah, our old friends the Pleiades. Winter is almost here. You have a lovely wide one of it Trev. nice stars all over, and a real pretty all round picture. Great stuff.

Ron.

[jonifive]

Very nice that one Trev.

JV

[Macavity]

Ever my first / last love - Nice to know (most of them?) are still there!

[jonifive]

Mac......you sound like Barry White!

JV

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

A great shot. Nebulosity starting to show up, lovely.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[trevboyd]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments. I was quite pleased with this shot.

KK, if I wanted more nebulosity to show up, would I need to stack longer exposures, or would more short ones also work? I'm tracking manually, so longer ones are quite problematic...

TIA

Trev

[steppenwolf]

Well done Trev - tried for M45 myself earlier this week but the LP and mist destroyed my attempts!

[proflight2000]

really nice trev, ill try that one when it reaches my part of the sky.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

KK, if I wanted more nebulosity to show up, would I need to stack longer exposures, or would more short ones also work? I'm tracking manually, so longer ones are quite problematic...

TIA

Trev

Don't know mate. I've tried allsorts and never got any nebulosity.

Kaptain klevtsov

[trevboyd]

Don't know mate. I've tried allsorts and never got any nebulosity.

Ah, OK, I just assumed from your comment that you had done so! Maybe its just a smudge on the front of my lens - with a 2 year old daughter, anything is possible! I'm going to try some longer exposures the next time the sky is clear, which from the look of things might be next year sometime

Trev

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Its something I would like to get Trev., but I don't think its going to happen from my well lit shed. Its certainly not a fault with your image, you just have a darker site than I do so I'll applaud your image again. Its a great image, keep playing with the settings until you get the image that you want.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[CELESCOPE]

Hi Trev , thats alovely wide field image ,and yes the nebulosity is just coming through ,i,m guessing the 350d is unmodded in which case the reflection nebula should come through pretty good , but i think you will need at least a minute subs, could try 45 secs ,

i enclose an image i done at 60sec subs .

ROG

[trevboyd]

Thanks KK and Roger. Yes, the 350d is unmodded (as its intended for normal daytime use and I've "borrowed" it for use at night ) I'm going to try longer subs to see if I can get any more nebulosity (provided the LP doesn't get too bad in a longer exposure - I've never tried anything longer than about 25s)

Thanks again

Trev

[Cloudwatcher]

Had a busy last few days and have just caught up with this thread. I think you do have traces of nebulosity showing through as KK says in what is a very good image indeed. Nice sharp stars too......mine are alway blobby.

I tried a little enhancement in PS,basically luminescence and contrast which does I think bring out the detail a little more. Might be worth your while to have another bash Trev as I've only done a quick job and you may be able to do better working with the original.

Cheer

CW

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