Pleiades Wide Field (stevenrobinsonpictures)

Pleiades Wide Field

This one is a bit of a labour of love. A few days' ago, I took my camera outside into my back garden in Scotland and sat on it my star adventurer star tracker and aimed it up to the brightest most recognisable star cluster in our night sky - The Pleiades. With my watchful eye, the system spent four and a half hours gathering ancient photons (444 light years) into my camera. I then carefully stretched and pulled out the faint dust that surrounds this beautiful star cluster. It is no wonder ancient civilisations looked up to this and pondered their place in the cosmos. Thank you for looking.

4.5 hours of exposure in bortle 4-5. A light pass of NoiseXTerminator in this one only. Not perfect, but not bad for a first real try on this - with the Eagle Nebula even making an appearing with a lot of dust.

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