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M45 Pleiades Wide Field, Toby Hollis
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M45 Pleiades Wide Field

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M45 Pleiades Wide Field

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Taking advantage of cloudy nights and snowy days to try something interesting... By the looks of the weather, I may not get out to do some new imaging on M45 until later this Fall, so I looked through some of my old data shot in Perry, Maine back in November 2020. Perry is in the far downeast corner of Maine and has spectacular Bortle 2/3 skies, when not affected by the ocean. This image was shot unguided at 300 mm, f/5.6, and is just a combination of 10 frames - 9 frames of 2 minutes each and 1 frame of 3 minutes, for a grand total of just 21 minutes of exposure. All the other data from the night was unusable due to passing clouds or guiding errors. I wanted to test the data against the capabilities of PixInsight and Photoshop just to see if I could get a decent image. I think this turned out pretty well, all things considered.

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M45 Pleiades Wide Field, Toby Hollis