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Sony A6300 (full spectrum) with Baader UV/IR cut filter
Lens: Nikon f:3.5 / 400mm (@ 5.6)
156 images 30sec at ISO 1600 (= 78min)
Another photo by my son Matthew using his Zwo Seestar S50. This time of the Pleiades an open star cluster aka Seven Sisters and Messier 45. Distance to Earth 444.2 Light Years
the 7 Sisters, or Subaru in Japanese. The Pleiades are a group of more than 800 stars located about 410 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. Taken with Esprit 120, QHY268M
The past couple nights I have left the camera out set to interval shooting. I've been trying to capture some meteors from the annual Perseid shower. The camera took hundreds of photos and perhaps 20 of the frames actually had meteors in them. This one isn't the brightest I captured, but it's one of my favorite shots anyway. It was captured just before dawn this morning and you can see the Pleiades star cluster in the frame as well.
By the way, I recently got a new camera!! A Pentax K-3. I'm really enjoying learning this new tool. The lens used was the Rokinon 14mm.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
After a few hours on the road, we have arrived in Trogir, a little farther south along the Dalmatian coast. These young women seem to be patiently waiting outside the Cathedral of St. Lawrence for … Seven Brothers? Unlike the sisters of classical mythology, they are unthreatened. I got a nice shot of a pigeon, perched above the door, about half an hour later. (1st comment).
The usual post-processing, plus perspective correction, a deep dig for shadow detail in the doorway, and cloning out a garbage can. Happy Sliders Sunday!
01:20 UTC 10 Sep 2023
The Pleiades is an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. It lies about 400 light-years from Earth and is about 100 million years old.
In the northern hemisphere, the fall and winter seasons are the best time to observe and photograph the Pleiades.
More Info: astrobackyard.com/m45-the-pleiades/
A cropdown from 135mm of the Pleiades open cluster some time in February 2022. This was just above 1 hour of total exposure under bortle 6 skies. I will have to wait until this winter for the opportunity to really hone in and get some serious exposure with this because there is much beautiful detail hidden among these stars. Taken with a Canon rebel t3i and rokinon 135mm lens. Tracked 30 second exposures
This picture was captured on September 1, 2022 at Alpha Ridge Park in Marriottsville, Maryland USA
The Pleiades, also known as The Seven Sisters, Messier 45 and other names by different cultures, is an asterism and an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth. Wikipedia
Radius: 17.5 light years
Distance to Earth: 444.2 light years
Apparent magnitude (V): 1.6
Constellation: Taurus
Coordinates: RA 3h 47m 24s | Dec +24° 7′ 0″
Hemisphere: Northern Hemisphere
Apparent dimensions (V): 110' (arcmin)
First serious imaging session with my new ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera. Really picked up a lot of stuff. As always, my processing leaves little to be desired but the quality of the raw images delivered from the new camera (barely any noise) makes for a great final result after working in PixInsight. There's also hardly any amp glow, so not sure if darks were really needed but I used them anyway. More to learn. Anyway, this'll do.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Color with IR Cut filter
- Guiding Equipment: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 30*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C
- Dark Frames: 10*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise
The Pleiades is a target I have been wanting to do for quite a while, and it did not disappoint! The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a prominent object in the night sky, located in the constellation Taurus. The cluster contains thousands of stars, of which only a handful are commonly visible to the unaided eye. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - William Optics Redcat
Imaging Camera- Qhy268m
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixinsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
L-40x30sec
R-40x30sec
G-40x30sec
B-40x30sec
L-20x120sec
R-20x120sec
G-20x120sec
B-20x120sec
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 4 hours
M45 pleiades imaged a few nights ago when it was super clear. 5D mk3 with the canon 200mm L lens on a 2x extender, mounted to my Celestron AVX mount.
6x60 second shots, aligned in DSS and tweaked in Photoshop.
A little of the nebulosity can be seen, which initially I didn't think was captured, or correct as its so blue!
My latest attempt at the Pleiades. Taken from my deck last night with a Z61 APO refractor telescope.
I added some new exposures to my stack.
Total integration time is 155 minutes.
7x20 Sek. ISO3200
55x60 Sek. ISO800
29x120 Sek. ISO800
41x45 Sek. ISO800
30x20 Sek. ISO1600,
Darks, Bias, Stacking in DeepSkyStacker
TS-Optics APO 72, 432mm, Canon 550D (stock)
Taken with my usual setup:
IOptron Star Tracker pro now with counterweight.
Rigel star finder,
Canon 70D,
Pentax Takumar 200mm lens stopped down to f5.6 in the front of the lens using step-down rings.
28 X 60sec exposures, processed in PS.
Some of the fainter dust that is present at the cluster can be seen but appears like noise due to insufficient exposure time.
I reprocessed the image on June 3, 2025 with the results you above..
By far my best image of The Pleiades. We’re away in Scotland and the skies are so dark (Bortle 2) that it really helped bring out all the blue wispy reflection nebula that I’ve not managed before.
Skywatcher 72ed
Canon 600d (un-modified)
Celestron SE mount with homemade wedge
75x 33 second exposures
40x darks, 40x flats, 40x bias
Processed in DSS, GIMP and Lightroom.
Premier essai pour faire ressortir l'IFN..traitement à revoir 😙
Fuji XT10 SAMYANG 135 45x180s 800 iso
Mont Cenis - France
Iconic reflection nebula created by the passage of an open cluster of bright young stars through a dust cloud. The magnetic fields of the stars warp the dust into lines and swirls.
Dust preferentially scatters blue light and absorbs red and IR imparting a blue colouration to the dust near to the stars whilst in the bottom right corner the dust cloud appears more red.
Taken robotically at Grand Mesa Observatory, Colorado with the system 1 scope.
Camera: QHY600M 16-Bit CMOS
Pixel Size: 3.76 x 3.76 microns
Image Scale (1x1): 1.19 arcsec/pixel
FOV: 3.17° x 2.12°
Optics: Takahashi FSQ130
Aperture: 130mm
Focal Length: 650mm
Focal Ratio: F5
Guiding: Stellarvue 50mm
Mount: Paramount ME
I know that I am a bit late to the party, but here is my take of the close encounter of Mars with the Pleiades open cluster.
I would have loved to shoot this as a deepscape from a dark sky location with some nice landscape in the foreground, but first I was clouded out and when it finally cleared, I had to fly the other day and was only able to shoot from my light polluted backyard.
Sometimes, you have to take what you can, even if it means to shoot a reflection nebula under a bortle 5 sky. Hope I will have better conditions in 17 years, when this encounter will happen again.
EXIF
Canon EOS 7D mkii
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8
Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Controlled with ASIair
120 x 30s + 60 x 15s @ ISO800 @ 200mm f/2.8
This is image is rendered from two nights of capture, and it is my best M45 image yet. Even so, it still does not hit the mark for me.
I did not use Blink or SubframeSelector before running WBPP, but WBPP rejected a lot of frames. To better understand why, I went back and used Blink and SfS after WBPP, and saw many frames with bad tracking. It doesn't seem that WBPP rejected enough frames, so perhaps some bad frames were included in the stack. Another potential problem that I detected is that the accepted frame counts are no where near equal across the RGB channels, which possibly accounts for the greenish cast to the smaller stars.
My thoughts about how to produce a better image than this one are to 1) cull the bad frames before processing again, 2) keep the good data and collect more data to add more signal and to balance the RGB frame counts, 3) collect some stars only (20s RGB subs) data, and 4) process stars and nebula separately before combining in the final image.
Les Pléiades (M45), parfois aussi appelées les Sept Sœurs, sont un amas ouvert d'étoiles qui est situé dans la constellation du Taureau. Dans de bonne condition, il est possible de photographier les nébuleuses par réflexion entourant ses étoiles principales.
Sa distance de la Terre est estimée à environ 444 années-lumière. Son étoile la plus brillante est Alcyone. Bien que seulement une douzaine de ses étoiles sont visibles à l'œil nu, cet amas en compte plusieurs milliers (env. 3000).
The Pleiades (M45), also called the Seven Sisters, is an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. It is among the star clusters nearest to Earth,
Nikon D5100 + WO Zenithstar 73II
120x30 sec (1h) + DOF -- ISO 200 -- F/5,9 -- 430mm
Star Adventurer Pro
DSS+Gimp
AstroM1
(r.1.1.3)
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, are an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus. Robert Burnham states in his Celestial Handbook, "undoubtedly the most famous galactic star cluster in the heavens, known and regarded with reverence since remote antiquity." Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien referred to the Pleiades as Remmirath, or "The Netted Stars" in The Fellowship of the Ring?
Tech Specs: Williams Optics REDCAT51, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro running at -5C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, 8 hours total including 4 hours using the Optolong L-eNhance filter, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro running v1.5 Beta software. Image date: November 8, 2020 and September 21, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
---Photo details----
Stacks RGB: 53x2min
Darks : 100
Dark flats : 100
Flats: 100
Exposure Time : 1hr46 min
Stack program : PixInsight
---Photo scope---
Camera : ZWO ASI2600MC PRO
CCD Temperature : -10C
Filter(s) used: Astronomik CLS CCD
Tube : Takahashi FSQ-106 EDX4
Field flattener / Reducer : -
Effective focal length : 530 mm
Effective aperture : F/5
---Guide scope---
Camera : ASI Mini guider
Guide exposure : 2 sec
---Mount and other stuff---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
---Processing details----
NINA for acquisition, controlling the following:
- ASTAP (plate solving)
- PHD2 (guiding)
- Stellarium
PixInsight : stacking, alignment, background extraction, histogram manipulation
Lightroom for final touchups
Topaz Denoise for a last processing step
Same data set but different image processing...
Sony A6300 (full spectrum) with Baader UV/IR cut filter
Lens: Nikon f:3.5 / 400mm (@ 5.6)
156 images 30sec at ISO 1600 (= 78min)
The Pleiades on a September night dodging smoke from the California wildfires on the Coconino Plateau near Sunset Crater Volcano in Arizona.
This images was captured the evening of 2020-09-15 with a William Optics RedCat 250/51mm Petzval refractor and ZWO ASI533MC cooled astrophotography camera controlled by a ZWO ASIAir Pro. The ASIAir is a marvel aiding and automating much of the shoot. Polar alignment and focusing with my single axis Vixen Polarie mount are a breeze. I monitored imaging session progress inside our cabin with a wireless connection to my iPad. This image includes data from 70 minutes of light frames and 15 minutes of dark frames taken at unity gain (101) at -10C in 30 second exposures.
Most processing was in PixInsight with final crop and exposure in PhotoShop and noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise. This colorful rendition captures the structures of the nebulae around the Pleiades and the colors of the nearby stars.
P.S. Reprocessed with the RC-Astro Noise/Blur/StarXterminator plugins to PixInsight.