This was an especially busy week at work, a lot going on all...
This was an especially busy week at work, a lot going on all around, including my son with an especially bad cold that developed into pneumonia–he spent the week recovering, so it was nice to be able to relax on a Friday night with clear skies, and schedule a somewhat unplanned and wayward imaging run across the autumn night sky. One of the targets I focused on was M45, the Pleiades. I was trying out 8-minute exposures, and it turned out well. It’s always nice to have an early setting moon–or new moon where I can use my ZWO ASI071MC cooled color camera with a normal UV/IR cut filter, and not have to plan around our star’s light reflecting off our disproportionately large moon. I shot the following stacked and processed image with the William Optics SpaceCat 51 APO Refractor, ZWO ASI071MC camera, on an iOptron CEM25P mount, with 28 x 480 and 600 second subs for M45.
