Pleiades and Hyades

[Roy Batty]

Taken tonight using the 18-55 canon kit lens, 6 X 5min subs, stacked in DSS, processed in PixInsight & CS3.

cheers

Keith

[robindurant]

That,s a cracking shot, when you enlarge it you can see the nebulosity around Pleiades. Well done

Robin

[thing]

Cracking shot, I'm deciding that widefields are my favourite shots I think.

[barkis]

Widefield captures are pretty exciting because so much information is packed in them.

This one is a great example. Not only for the two main clusters, but look at all those other suns in this Image.

Ron.

[Taff]

Nice capture lots of stars there.Taff

[SteelRat]

Very pretty pic that Keith 8) Nice

[Roy Batty]

Thanks for the comments guys

The only thing I'm not quite happy with is that there is quite a bit of chromatic abberration going on at the field edges. I've just looked up on the web that Photoshop has a tool to deal with this. I've never noticed it in the menus before , but then again you tend to only see what you use :oops: .

So i'll be having another go at tweaking this tonight and re-post....fingers crossed.

cheers

Keith

[Roy Batty]

Here's the revised version - you probably wont notice much of a difference from my original unless you look at it full size, but the de-CA tool in CS3 appears to have worked a treat .

thanks again for looking.

Keith

[Psychobilly]

yep thats worked a treat...

I think there may be some slight stacking errors in there have a look and you'll see double stars in the corners...

Not taking anything away from the image thought as its a cracker

[Roy Batty]

You're right billy, but I guess DSS makes as good a job of it as it can with the distorted stars at the edge of field. I could crop further but I think it would have a negative impact on the scale.

Keith

[Psychobilly]

Hi Roy,

I totally agree with you the FOV is a biggy...

I have found DSS does this if you shoot wide so I guess its something you have to live with...

So it's a case of balancing FOV against the quality of the edge stars... I have got to try the same thing in Registar as it can correct for optical distortion between frames but you have to do the darks , bias, flats etc on each frame in DSS or another app first

Billy...

[Roy Batty]

Re-posted the image due to it being dropped from the transfer to the new site.