M45 - The Pleiades
  • Details
    Date Taken: 05/23/2009
    Telescope: Orion 8" f/4.9 Imaging Reflector
    Camera: Canon 20D
    Processing: Captured in MDLE. 14 - ten minute darks. 41 - Twilight Flats (Box Car). 20 - Bias Frames. Stacked in DeepSky Stacker. RGB Files subtracted with Nebulosity. Photoshop CS2, and Fits Liberator to re-create a RGB file.
    Exposure: e.g. 15 x 30 sec. 54 - ten minute exposures, or 9 hours of total data
    Other Equipment Used: Tele Vue Paracorr Visual, Orion 100mm f/6.0 Refractor Tube Assembly
  • Photographer
    Thom I