Messier 45 - Pleiades

[Victor Boesen]

This Christmas I acquired an OVL field flattener for my Skywatcher Evostar 72ED and I was lucky to try it out at my grandma and grandpa's bortle 4 skies. The target was messier 45 since I knew it wouldn't be clear for enough time for me to image the orion nebula(which I hopefully will tomorrow). I ended up with 37X90 sec subs on my star adventurer with my Nikon D3300. And for the first time I took 30 flat frames which I actually think helped a little(haven't compared though). Although comparing to my 60X60sec pleiades taken at home(bortle 7-8) the difference is dramatic!

Feedback is appreciated!

Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/k23uji/

Clear skies!

Victor

[Stargazer33]

Very nice, well done! Lots more stars and an appreciable amount of nebulosity in your latest image.

You'll have to visit Grandma and Grandpa more often! 😀 

[Victor Boesen]

12 hours ago, Stargazer33 said:

Very nice, well done! Lots more stars and an appreciable amount of nebulosity in your latest image.

You'll have to visit Grandma and Grandpa more often! 😀 

I wish I had the time to but the 2 hour drive (and my age of 17) is limiting how often I can visit then but when I can I will;)

[Victor Boesen]

I tried creating a false luminans layer in photoshop for the first time and I'm actually really impressed with the result! I've always edited my photos in lightroom but I think I will begin to consider using photoshop a little more. The image now reveals a little IFN but also noise so I hope to get some more exposures tonight before M42 rises.