Hyades and M45 widefield

[Will Gater]

Had a nice clear night on Friday, doing mainly visual observing , looking at some clusters and DSOs in the MW (also trying to see NGC 7000 with bins, to no avail ) I finished the night by taking this pic of the Hyades and M45 which were rising. There was a lot of sky glow near the Hyades which I've tried to gently process out - it's a total of about 12 minutes unguided on an HEQ5 Pro. Can't believe these objects are coming back again. :shock: I had only just got started on trying to get M33 and M31 sussed!

[Psychobilly]

Nice Wide one Will

Billy...

[LostNSpace]

Nice widefield image Will.....Weird effect on the brighter stars, they almost look like starfish....Do you know whats caused this?

Mark

[Doc]

Thats a cracker Will.

A lot of detail in there.

[MikeD]

Nice work will.

Mike.

[Beyond_Vision]

Two great cluster for the price of one, very nice capture Will

Regards

Kevin

[CELESCOPE]

Like that one Will . perfect , lovely stars nice and crisp .

Rog

[Will Gater]

Thanks everyone , Mark - I think the starfish are a diffraction effect from the basic lens I was using. I've seen it before on some wide field shots I've done with this lens.