M45 - First light with the WO ZS80

[Starflyer]

I finally managed to get it all together and working last night, so here's my first auto-guided image

M45 The Pleiades - William Optics TMB ZS80

Canon 400D, 6 x 600 second subs and 3 darks.

Pulse guided using Guidemaster in PC direct mode, using a QHY5 through a cheapo 70mm Bresser frac on one of Arthur's lovely side-by-side bars.

Stacked in DSS, curves and levels in PS CS3.

It was set to run for another couple of hours but the clouds rolled in around midnight, but at least I got something. The image is heavily cropped - I think I need a flattener / reducer for this combo.

(click to enlarge)

Ian

[Doc]

I think most of the M45 was included. There's lots of nebulosity in this shot which in my view makes a great image.

Thanks for sharing.

[barkis]

That's a real nice Image Ian. A cluster I never tire of seing.

Ron.

[Jamie]

Hmmm.... I really like this lots.

Thanks for sharing...

[steppenwolf]

Cropped or not, its all there and very nice too - well done on your first autoguide!

[Beyond_Vision]

Glad to hear you have got autoguiding sussed. There will be no stopping you now once the clouds clear

Great shot of the sisters Ian

Regards

Kevin

[markcol]

Excellent M45 Ian, especially as it's your first guided image.

Mark

[Taff]

Nice picture of M45' lots of nebs around the stars.Taff

[Psychobilly]

Hi Ian - Thats a real Beaut - Welcome to the world of autoguiding - a whole new universe of targetes out there to image now

Billy...

[beamish]

:hello1: :hello1: :hello1: well done Ian, nice start !! Far more encouraging than my own effort :withstupid: .

Look fwd to seeing more soon .

Karlo

[gary1968]

Well doen Ian, that is a cracker - lots of nebulosity and the stars a very sharp.

Gary

[Keagle]

Excellent shot Ian. Lots of nebulosity.

Kurt

[dogfish]

That's a cracker bro! Lots of stars and a wide angle view, despite the cropping.

Well done, Martin

[Starflyer]

Cheers for the comments guys

The raw data is the best I've ever captured, but I need to work on my processing - I feel there's an better image lurking in there somewhere. Here's a version with less blue in the background, I think it looks slightly better;

(click to enlarge)

Ian

[PH-R]

That shot is fantasic, thxs for sharing!

Regards,

Paul

[Starjumper]

Ian thats a superbe image.

John

[jgs001]

Superb image Ian

[RobH]

Nice image Ian, the second one looks a bit better to me.

Cheers

Rob

[LostNSpace]

Nice 1st AG`d image Ian

Mark