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
M45, JanD
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M45

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Around two hours of clear skies allowed my second visit to M45. The first visit was almost a year ago with a 135 mm Nikon lens. The Vixen R200SS reveals much more details...

Quite revealing also about what I still have to correct with the Newton: I had to crop around 25% from the bottom because of the DSLR mirror shadow. And it looks like, while collimation might be okay, I have a main mirror tension (I cleaned it and probably tightened it to hard). Good that there are always some things to fix, would be too boring otherwise...

Best,

Jan

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