No tracker? No problem: The Pleaides! (Carl Elgario)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 19 Tau) · 25 Tau) · Barnard's Merope Nebula · IC 349 · Maia Nebula · Merope Nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · Sterope I (21 Tau) · The star 11 Tau · The star 18 Tau · The star Alcyone (η Tau · The star Asterope · The star Atlas (27 Tau) · The star Celaeno (16 Tau) · The star Electra (17 Tau) · The star Merope (23 Tau) · The star Pleione (28 Tau) · The star Taygeta (q Tau

No tracker? No problem: The Pleaides!, Carl Elgario

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Such an easy, well known, easy to spot, and bright target, and I've only just now imaged it. However this is not even to its true form, as there is SO much more reflection nebulae and molecular cloud to be revealed around this star cluster that requires, well first of all a star tracker (we'll touch upon this later), and also just way more integration time, as this was only 1 hour. But this is what I was able to conjure up as my first completed astrophoto since May - over 7 months - and the fact that this was done untracked, without a star tracker, makes me pretty well satisfied.Why I did this without a tracker is indeed a great question, but really it's because yesterday night was such a clear night, the last one for a while, so I had to go and do something, even if my tracker had not arrived yet (in fact it arrived just one day later... today, oh well). So yeah, to mitigate star trailing due to the lack of tracker, I had to take 1 hour worth of 1.3s exposures -> 2690 stacked images, over 60GB of data, and yeah. This. Without a tracker. Not my best work, but it is certainly impressive in its own right.But since the tracker is finally here, I can plan even crazier images once again. Crazier than last year, because now I have the entirety of astronomy season rather than just March-May. Time will tell what I can come up with!

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