Calypsob Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) I forgot to share this one last month. Between travel for business and brutally cold weather closing down my nearby imaging location in the mountains I have not had time to image this year. This was taken at the beginning of December and contains a very busy wide field splitting the constellations Taurus and Perseus. The better known DSO's are M45 the Pleiades reflection nebula and NGC 1499 the California emission nebula. The center of the image contains a dark nebula which I am not familiar with and the rest of the region is quite heavily laden in ISM interstellar medium dust. This image was taken with my unmodded T3i Information about this image camera: unmodded T3i ISO:1600 Exposures: 102 x 100s Darks: 5 ugh, mishap Bias:450 frame master Flats:35 Lens:SMC Pentax M* 50mm F1.7 stopped to F4 SQM: 21.1 Seeing: 3/5 Transparency:3/5 Calibrated and partially processed in Pixinsight and finished off in Photoshop CC 2017. M45 and California by Wes Schwarz, on Flickr Edited January 11, 2017 by Calypsob 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimvb Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 lovely widefield, with lots of faint detail. Thanks for sharing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etunar Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 lots of subtle detail. the more you look, the more you see! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spock Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Very nice image. The California looks lovely, and so natural too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laudropb Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Lots of lovely detail to mull over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orion25 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 So much beauty to behold. What a shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigT82 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Lovely shot with lots of detail. I'd be tempted to up the saturation a little to bring out the red in the California and the blue in the Pleiades?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calypsob Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Thanks everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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