M45 Pleiades

[Darth Takahashi]

Here is an image from Christmas 2008! Sound so long ago now! The sky open for a few days after Christmas and I managed to gather 2 hours of data to capture the nebulosity. The image was taken with my TOA130F at 7.7 with a standard Canon 1DMIII.

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Hope you like it, Neil.

[Aza]

Another cracker Neil.

Looking forward to seeing more of your shots

[gary1968]

Thats very nice Niel, thanks for sharing.

Gary

[RichieJarvis]

Very nice Neil...

Did you use any filters there?

Cheers,

Richie

[Darth Takahashi]

That's a good point Richie, I forgot to add that I used an Astronomic CLS filter. This helps to control local light pollution. Without it my sky glow limit is about 5-7mins depending upon the conditions. With it I'm able to get up to 15 - 20min subs. That makes a big difference to the final image quality.

I still hate doing darks, especially 15 / 20 min darks... but as we all know there mandatory!

Neil.

[Psychobilly]

Hi Neil,

Nice Image just took the liberty to correct the colors slightly - remove the cyan cast that results from the CLS...

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Billy...

[Darth Takahashi]

No Billy that's great, how did you make the adjustment, with Photoshop?

Does the CLS always bring a cyan cast to the images? I must admit that I didn't notice it in the image since its predominate blue, thanks for the help.

Neil.

[Psychobilly]

Yes always a cyan cast with the CLS - more pronounced taht That I get from My IDAS but it looks like My CLS-CCD EOS clip filters finaly arrived today...

I used CS3 Image -> Adjustments -> Channel Mixer

Next bit loads of different ways of doing it..

I selected the Ouput Channel to be RED

Set RED Slider 100% GREEN +88% and BLUE -16%

Thats how I did it...

Billy...

[Les Tilly]

Nice image Neil Keep them rolling in

Les