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Images => Deep Sky Images => Topic started by: frant on January 27, 2018, 12:17:45 am

Title: M45 Pleiades LRGB
Post by: frant on January 27, 2018, 12:17:45 am

Just shy of 5 hours LRGB on The Pleiades, imaged over 2 nights in January 2018 near Cambridge, UK.
Thanks for looking.

Title: Re: M45 Pleiades LRGB
Post by: dpaul on January 27, 2018, 02:46:59 am

Wow,

Almost looks like aircraft trails !

Superb detail

David

Title: Re: M45 Pleiades LRGB
Post by: Iria-Atik on January 29, 2018, 08:37:20 am

This is a great image indeed!! Especially from the cloudy UK!

Thank a lot for sharing it with us :) could be possible to know which SW did you use for imaging and processing the image?

Iria

Title: Re: M45 Pleiades LRGB
Post by: frant on January 29, 2018, 07:05:34 pm

Thank you Iria.

Acquisition software was Sequence Generator Pro, processed with PixInsight.
Here are the full details:

Imaged January 19th and 20th 2018, near Cambridge UK.

Image Details:
4 hours 50 mins total exposure.
12 x 600s Luminance 1x1 (2 hours)
11 x 300s Red 1x1 (55mins)
12 x 300s Green 1x1 (1 hours)
11 x 300s Blue 1x1 (55mins)

Scope - Altair Astro Wave Series 115mm Refractor, Planostar 0.79x reduced to 642mm/F5.54.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader Ha/OIII/SII filters. -20degC.
Scale - 1.73 arcsec/pixel.

Mount - Altair Astro Pier mounted iOptron CEM60.
Guiding - Lodestar X2 and SX OAG with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.

Title: Re: M45 Pleiades LRGB
Post by: Iria-Atik on January 30, 2018, 09:29:56 am

Thank you for the image details!

I really like it :)

Iria