My first M45.

[jacko61]

Very surprised it's taken me so long to get round to imaging M45 as it's easily my favourite object in the sky. I had planned to get more data on M33 but I was so late getting into the observatory last night I'd have had to contend with a meridian flip after less than half an hour and the Celestron advance GT  doesn't handle those with much grace

So here's M45 - The Pleiades. 30 x 180 seconds lights @ 100 gain. 15 x 180 second darks.  both at -10C.  William Optics ZS73 with Flat73R. Main camera is a ZWO ASI533MC pro. Guiding in PHD2 using a WO 50mm uniguide and ZWO ASI290mm mini. Captured in APT, stacked in DSS and processed in Gimp.

Graeme 

[Stickey]

Excellent image,  Grasmere 👍