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OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 3:00 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 05/2022
I had a bit of luck last night getting this photo. Yesterday (yesternight?) was the comets closest approach to the Pleiades but it was too cloudy to go. Last night looked better so I went out to Rose Valley for a look. There was a fair amount of slow moving high clouds but the area I wanted was clear. I was happy for that because it could have gone the other way.
Since this picture was a wider angle image I used a better lens. The quality was higher. I also used lower ISO and Bulb mode, triggered with an IR remote. This worked well.
Cheers.
Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Quite evident in the above photograph are the blue reflection nebulae that surround the brighter cluster stars. Low mass, faint, brown dwarfs have also been found in the Pleiades. (Text adapted from APOD).
This object was imaged from my southern Australian observatory, with a maximum elevation from the horizon between 30 and 35 degrees..
Apo TEC140 (140/f7.2) - FLI Proline 16803 - L (330m) R (120m) G (150m) B (150m) - Warrumbungle Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia
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Hanging in the sky like a bejewelled Christmas treee we can find the Pleiades Cluster. Also known as Messier 45, the Seven Sisters or Subaru (Japan), it's an open star cluster dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The dust surrounding the stars forms a blue reflection nebula around the brightest stars causing the entire region to appear in a blue glow surrounded by a deep cloud of dark, reddish brown dust and gas.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: Baader UV/IR cut
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
72 x 5 min exposures
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, Ontario.
It's hard to ignore this feature of the winter sky. From the corner of your eye it seems like a bright cloud, which somehow fades as you view it directly. This illusion says more about the way our vision is constructed than the nature of the star cluster itself. But imaging reveals the unusual grouping of hot blue stars passing through a dusty patch in space which provides the ethereal blue reflection nebulae.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/1.08 flattener/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/ZWO ASI1600MC camera/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount. 76 minutes of 4 second exposures, captured with SharpCap 3.2, processed with PixInsight, finished with ACDSee. Captured November 2nd from my yard 10 miles north of NYC.
Pleiades, M45
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro
Scope: William Optics Fluorite Doublet 80/555
Camera: Nikon Z6
Seeing conditions: 60% ..from by home in Rome
Unguided exposures:
- ISO800 x 40'' x 60 exposures
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
un'anticipazione dell'inverno che inesorabilmente sta arrivando, le prime 5 ore e mezza sulle Pleiadi, le 7 Sorelle, eseguite in un pò di nottate al termine delle sessioni, ho racimolato225 frame di 7 minuti ciascuno eseguiti con la CCD QHY 183 c sensore a -15 con obiettivo Samyang 135 mm. chiuso a F4 20 flat, 20 drak-flat e 20 dark frame, autoguida con PH Guiding e dithering su FS60 CB Takahashi ed Orion Starshoot, managnement N.I.N.A. processing Pixinsight EZ Process Suite Denoise Topaz Labs e Photoshop CC19.
ovviamente dal cielo di casa, umidità molto presente che mi ha fatto scartare parecchi frames per appannamento ottiche di ripresa!!!
aggiunti altri frames per un totale di 20 ore di integrazione
---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
Data from March of this year, reprocessed with new techniques.
William Optics 61mm Zenithstar and ZWO ASI183MC Pro camera
15*4 min exposures with darks
The Pleiades Star Cluster in Taurus.
This image was captured using a Canon EOS Rebel XSi camera through an 80mm refractor telescope.
The image includes 25 x 3.5-minute exposures at ISO 1600 for a grand total of 1 hour and 27 minutes.
If you'd like to learn how to process images like this in Adobe Photoshop, I created a 100+ page image processing guide: sellfy.com/p/0zsyyq/
Messier 45 (Pleiades) is one of the most iconic deep sky objects in the night sky, and this reflection nebula is one of my all time personal favorites objects.
Thanks for looking!
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, Messier 45 or Subaru (to unite in Japanese), is an open star cluster of very hot B-type stars estimated to be between 75 and 150 million years old.
Distance to Earth: 444.2 light years
Radius: 17.49999965 light years
Constellation: Taurus
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Image Information
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-ED 106mm | f5.0
Camera: SBIG STL-11000M CCD
Mount: Paramount PME
Exposure Details: L 6 x 300 sec, RGB 9 x 300 sec
Observatory: Mayhill Observatory, New Mexico, USA
Date Taken: 25 January 2019
Post-Processing: AstroPixelProcessor, PS
M45 (Pleiades) NGC1432
Taken 10-9-2010 from Western Massachusetts.
Telescope: AT80LE (80mm) Refractor
Camera: Modified Canon Rebel XSi
ISO 1600
17 x 4 minutes exposure (68 minutes)
Processed in Deepsky Stacker and Photoshop
The Pleiades rise over the west side of Mt. Adams, coinciding with the best part of the Perseid meteor shower, with no moon in the sky.
CAMERA: Yashica Lynx 35mm rangefinder
LENS: 45 mm f/1.4
FILM: Fuji G-800 color negative
EXPOSURE: 30 seconds @ f/1.4
SCANNED FROM: 5" x 7" print
FILE NO.: 96-12 #2
M45 The Pleiades
25) Luminace, 5-minute, 0-gain.
15) Red, 5-minute, 0-gain.
15) Green, 5-minute, 0-gain.
15) Blue, 5-minute, 0-gain.
-10 C Cooling
Calibrated with Darks, Flats, Flat-Darks, and Bias.
Stacked in DSS, processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
ZWO ASI Filter Wheel and Filters
ZWO ASI 68mm OAG
ZWO ASI174MM Guide Cam
ZWO ASI EAF
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Sky-Watcher Eq6r-Pro
Pole Master
10-4-2021, Okie-Tex Star Party
Oklahoma City Astronomy Club
M45 Pleiades taken on the 29/10/2013 51 x 240 secs with darks,bias,flats. Stacked and Processed in PI. Taken with a QHY8L,SW ED80,GT-EQ6,Astronomik CLS Filter (not IR blocked) guided with 9 x 50 finder guider with a QHY5.
Sum of two perfectly aligned and superimposed images of Venus (Apr 4, 2020) and pleiades (image of 2012 present in my photostream)
Aglomerado aberto das Plêiades (em sua maior parte). Nas próximas oportunidades, tentarei fazer mais frames para obter melhores registros finais. Enquanto não chegam as novas correias (maiores) que encomendei, adaptei uma correia da minha montagem anterior em um dos eixos. Houve relevante melhora no funcionamento. Vou tentar adaptar uma dessas correias também no outro eixo para testes até chegarem as novas.
Refletor Sky-Watcher 200mm F/5 EQ5, Canon T6 (Foco Primário) não modificada. Processamento: DeepSkyStacker, PhotoScape e PS Express. Guiagem via Onstep, utilizando Guidescope 50mm e ASI 120MC-S.
Plêiades: 17 light frames (15x120s + 01x300s + 01x60s, totalizando 36 minutos e 04 segundos de exposição), 10 dark frames, 10 bias frames. ISO 800.
the tail was showing up using my 135 F2 on the 6D ISO 12,800. single shot the stars are purple because of the Chromatic Aberration from the lens
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.
I've been looking forward to this conjunction for months - ever since deciding to get into astrophotography last year.
In the event, many practice runs shooting the Pleiades were useful, if not for image data as I'd hoped but at least for getting familiar with setting up the tracking mount and camera in quick order to catch a few photons during a committee meeting.
Sony A7r3 with K&F light-pollution filter:
38 lights: ISO 800, f/6.3, 30s, pixel-shift
78 bias frames
96 darks
24 flats
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, finished in Affinity.
First attempt at Pleiades. Shot from a very light polluted bortle 6 area with no filters.
Canon 5D Mark IV
Canon 70-200mm f4 @ 200mm
iOptron Skyguider Pro
19 x Lights (2 minutes at iso 500)
5 x Darks
10 x Flats
10 x Bias
Another successful session using the Starizona HyperStar (converts sluggish f/10 telescope into speedy f/2.2). Detailed capture with only 16 minutes of integration time.
Date: October 29, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 16 x 60-sec subframes, OSC
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Accessory: Starizona HyperStar C9.25-v4 lens
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC
Antlia Triband RGB Ultra, 2"
Mount: iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASIAIR Plus Control and Capture
Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats
Processed with PixInsight, Photoshop
I never posted this from my trip to Win Green, originally I didnt think that there was much detail or colour to pull out of the images but was really impressed with it in the end.
I've spent some time re-editing a few of my recent images in PixInsight, I've managed to pull out quite a lot more from them!
Image Details:
Taken with my Canon 600D
Tracking: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro
Lens: Tair PhS 300mm f/4.5
66 Light Frames at 300mm, 60", f/5.6 and ISO1600
25 Dark Frames at 300mm, 60", f/5.6 and ISO1600
No Flats
No Flat Darks
No Bias
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Edited in PixInsight
The Pleiades star cluster is also known as the Seven Sisters, and as Messier 45. It is a prominent object in the night sky with a conspicuous place in ancient mythology. The cluster is among the nearest to Earth, and the most obvious to the naked eye.
The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) is an asterism and open star cluster containing hot B-type stars in the constellation Taurus. At a distance of 444 light years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth. The two reflection nebulae associated with the Pleiades are NGC 1435 (Merope Nebula -- lower right) and NGC 1432 (Maia Nebula -- upper right). With enough exposure time and careful processing, however, it just looks like dust everywhere.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5 zone,
Oct 20-22, 2023
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183mm pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
92 X 300s Red
97 x 300s Green
96 x 300s Blue
Darks flats dithering GraXpert
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS and PS
1 stack of 58 60s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens at f6.3, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 120 darks, 120 biases. Processed in PixInsight as below
* CC defect list + master dark (sigma = 8)
* Subframe selection
30*(1-(FWHM-FWHMMin)/(FWHMMax-FWHMMin))
+ 30*(1-(Eccentricity-EccentricityMin)/(EccentricityMax-EccentricityMin))
+ 20*(SNRWeight-SNRWeightMin)/(SNRWeightMax-SNRWeightMin)
+ 20
Eccentricity < 0.7 && SNRWeight > 1 && FWHM < 5. Keep frames 7173 and 7177 even though they failed the rejection conditions, for meteors
* star alignment:
img 8411 ref, frame adaptation (let's see if this works)
* ESD integration, range exclude
* drizzle integration, gaussian kernel\
*****Linear processing
*** Initial
* Crop
* DBE tolerance 3
*** CC
* PCC on Pleiades, default settings pixel size 2, background neutralization upper limit 0.0012
*** Decon
* star mask creation: extract luminance get starmask with starnet, then range mask 0.1-1 (1). from stretched luminance range mask 0.55-1 (2). Pixel math max the 2 as binary_star_mask. 4x dilate, 6x convolve
* PSF - ezdecon script
* background mask -ezdecon script and curves
* with background mask on, inverted, apply decon 100 iterations on luminance, deringing global dark 0.01 light 0.002 and local deringing with binary star mask, wavelet regularization
*** Denoise
Using jonrista.com/the-astrophotographers-guide/pixinsights/eff... as implemented by EZSuite.
* EZDenoise, TGV 1500 edge 1e-5, default MMT
***** Nonlinear
*** Initial stretch
* Masked stretch, default settings
* using a contrasty luminance as mask, curves stretch
*** Stretched color mods
* with binary_star_mask protecting stars, ACDNR on chrominance, lightness mask, stdev 4 iterations 6
* CC background ref upper limit 0.125
* invert, SNCR green 1, invert again (to fix magenta hues in whites)
* SNCR green 0.8
*** Star mods
* extract star mask with starnet, blur 3 layers of a trous, curve boost
* with it on, curve saturation upwards. Clone stamp out big stars - small_star_mask
* using that as a start, EZStarReduce using morphological transformation
* with small_star_mask on, unsharp mask 0.9, w/ deringing
***MLT stretch
www.stelleelettroniche.it/en/2014/09/astrophoto/m42-ngc19...
**Initial (fine details)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 5 layers
* diffed from original image to create a "blurred" version of original image
* extracted luminance from original, s-shaped RGB curve used as mask on blurred version
* used curves to create s shape in RGB (asymmetrical, like a camera curve) and pump up saturation a lot
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
**Second (nebula)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 7 layers, and diff from original
* extract luminance from diff, s-shaped RGB curve. Use as mask on blurred version
* slight boosts in sat and RGB
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
*** Finishers
* EzDenoise, TGV 1500 edge 8e-3, default MMT
* LHE kernel 512 contrast 1.5,slight boost in sat, 50-50 mix with original
* LHE kernel 256 contrast 1.5, 20-80 mix with original
* dark structure enhance
* MMT sharpen, 6 layers biases 0.05 0.05 0.025, 0.025, 0.012, 0.005 with luminosity mask s-curved for more contrast
Two panel mosaic of the dusty region between the Pleiades and the California Nebula.
Cam: Canon EOS 6Da
Lens: Walimex Pro 135mm f/2.0
Astromount: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Autoguider: Lacerta M-GEN plus Finderscope 9x50
Processing: PixInsight, PS
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Reprocessed data captured in 2019. One of my first attempts with PixInsight. 19x10min exposures with Canon 6D and 6” RC telescope and focal reducer.
Familiar to anyone who has looked at the night sky, this is a group of young blueish stars with foreground bluish nebulosity.
Target: M45 Pleiades Star Cluster
The Pleiades is also known as the Seven Sisters. It is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. It is in the Taurus constellation approximately 400-450 light years from Earth. I shot this cluster 3 years ago using a Canon EOS-R and Sigma telephoto lens
Gear:
Mount: ZWO AM5
Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro @ gain 121 and 8F
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with ZWO 30mm f/4 scope
Telescope: Askar 103APO w/ 0.8x reducer/flattener - 420mm f/4
Filter: Baader Moon and Sky-glow Broadband light pollution
Acquisition:
Light frames: 120 2 minute subs for 4hr integration
Sessions: 06-Oct-2024
Moon: 3 days old 11% below horizon
Location: SW Columbus, TX - Bortle 3/4
Processing
• Pixinsight Auto DBE, BTX, STX
• Pixinsight Statistical stretch
• Pixinsight HT black point color balance, Saturation Curves
• Pixinsight Stretch Stars using - Star stretch
• Photoshop ACR contrast, black point, clarity, de-haze
• Photoshop Selective Colors, ACR, channel D&B to balance colors
• Photoshop Screen stars, duplicate layer/black mask/reveal select stars
• Photoshop Final curves, watermark
Total exposure: 4 Min 25 sec
Light frames : 53 x 5"
ISO: 3200
Camera : Nikon D7500
Lens : Nikkor 50mm at f 2.8
Bortle class: 5