Utah Astrophotography
Pleiades
This is a difficult target with moderate amounts of light pollution, from where my mount is setup I only get a ~2-3 hour window to shoot the nebula this time of year and give the light pollution in the area I really need to get 15 hours of integration or more. This is a stack of 87 x4 minute exposures for a little less than 6 hours total, if I get some clear skies during the new moon phase I want to get at least double that to bring the noise down and more of the details out.
Nikon D5300 (modified) with an Astrotech AT65EDQ telescope on a Sirius EQ-G mount (Rowan Belt Modified). 87 x5 minute, ISO 400, calibrated with flats and bias, stacked, and edited in PixInsight with final edits in Photoshop.
Pleiades
This is a difficult target with moderate amounts of light pollution, from where my mount is setup I only get a ~2-3 hour window to shoot the nebula this time of year and give the light pollution in the area I really need to get 15 hours of integration or more. This is a stack of 87 x4 minute exposures for a little less than 6 hours total, if I get some clear skies during the new moon phase I want to get at least double that to bring the noise down and more of the details out.
Nikon D5300 (modified) with an Astrotech AT65EDQ telescope on a Sirius EQ-G mount (Rowan Belt Modified). 87 x5 minute, ISO 400, calibrated with flats and bias, stacked, and edited in PixInsight with final edits in Photoshop.