The Pleiades - Wide Field with IFN (Jon Rista)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: Maia nebula · Merope nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · The star 18Tau · The star Atlas (27Tau) · The star Celaeno (16Tau) · The star Electra (17Tau) · The star Merope (23Tau) · The star Pleione (28Tau) · The star Sterope I (21Tau) · The star Taygeta (19Tau) · The star ηTau

The Pleiades - Wide Field with IFN, Jon Rista

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The Pleiades - Wide Field with IFN

The Pleiades was my first AP target with an equatorial tracking mount. On that night, Feb. 12th, 2014 I think it was, I fought with clouds, wind, zero knowledge, and my Astronomik CLS filter. I had no idea what I was doing back then, and the results were...well, pitiful, to say the least. ;)

Eight months later...and this.

Extremely noisy, as I have thus far only been able to get about one third of the subs I believe I need (84/~260!), I've taken the data about as far as I can. I am pretty amazed I was able to create this image at all. It was produced from 84 150 second subs at ISO 400. No filtration, under an orange/red transition zone (orange to the south, red to the north, dealing with the gradient between the two was one of the most challenging aspects of processing this image.)

A mere 3 hours of integration without filters under heavily light polluted skies. I would have guaranteed you this wasn't possible when I first started eight months ago. Today, I'm a believer that almost anything is possible if you put your mind to it. Enjoy.

Central USA
Cloudy Nights

5 - Deep Sky Objects (DSO)
8 - DSLR

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