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 Shot from a Red Zone., Christopher Scott
M45 Shot from a Red Zone.
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M45 Shot from a Red Zone.

M45 Shot from a Red Zone., Christopher Scott
M45 Shot from a Red Zone.
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M45 Shot from a Red Zone.

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This was 100% imaged from my backyard in red zone. I was testing various ways of trying to cut out light pollution and found that taking only RGB subs at 120 seconds or less (lens stopped down to f/4) could get me where I wanted to go. By the time I finished this in the fall, I was over 600 subs deep and hit a point of deminishing return. I stacked all three channels to make a master luminance copy to layer over the RGB data. In the end it turned out good (not as good as dark skies, but still pretty good). So the moral of the story is this: buy a bigger hard drive if you shoot broadband targets from the city.

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M45 Shot from a Red Zone., Christopher Scott