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M45 - The Pleiades - Take 3, Doug Gray
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M45 - The Pleiades - Take 3

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M45 - The Pleiades - Take 3

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This is one of the targets I've shot multiple times to get a sense of how my skills and equipment have improved over time. Same scope, but the first was 20' with a DSLR and a star adventerer, the second was over an hour with the CEM70. This one is over 3 hours with the ASI294MM and Optolong LRGB filters. I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out, but I'm starting to really understand what others mean when they complain about star bloat. When I eventually get a larger scope, if it's a refractor it's definitely going to be a triplet.

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M45 - The Pleiades - Take 3, Doug Gray