M45 - Pleiades

M45, The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, it’s an open star cluster in Taurus.

 

I photographed this on the 23rd December 2021 and managed to capture 49 minutes. Due to the field of view of my setup, I had to capture this as a mosaic across 4 separate panels.

 

This came out much better considering how minimal amount of exposure time I had between those 4 panels.

 

This was also a good test for Astro Pixel Processor’s new mosaic algorithm and speed increase, which I can say worked fantastic over the previous version!

 

Details below

 

- 49 x 60s

- Master Dark, Flat & Dark Flat applied

 

- ZWO 533 (gain 100, Offset 20, -15C)

- ZWO OAG with ZWO 290MM

- Skywatcher 200p newtonian (F4.75 / 950mm) with low profile focuser

- ZWO EAF

- ZWO 2” filter drawer

- Skywatcher EQ6R Pro

- Sharpstar 0.95x coma corrector

- Astronomik 2" L2 UV IR

 

 

Capturing - NINA

Guiding - PHD2

Stacking and Pre Processing - APP

Post Processing - Photoshop 2022

Done