M45 and Venus old and new

[fwm891]

Just managed to get M45 and Venus last night before it dropped below the roof line. Great in a pair of bines.

Needless to say that Venus swamped M45 so I've tried to merge some older M45 subs with the Venus m45 images from last night too.

Venus M45 from last night is a stack of 4x 5 sec subs, WO 73ZS with Nikon 800E - image cropped.

I've replaced the combined image with 4x 5sec stack with a 6x 1 sec stack, shows Venus better and obscures less of M45

 

 

Edited April 4, 2020 by fwm891
Text and image replaced

[alan potts]

I wanted to just view it last night with the Dob but clouds had other idea, very nice capture which will always be difficult with a minus 4 mag object in the midst.

Alan