M45 in 30 minutes at 50mm
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A steady mount and extremely clear skies gave me the conditions I was waiting for to test long (3-minute) exposures. This is just 7 of them. I purposefully increased the saturation to make this an almost celebatory looking skyscape.
Image details
| Telescope: | Sony ILCE-6300 | |
| Length: | 336mm | |
| Aperture: | 70mm | |
| F-stop: | f/4.56 | |
| Sessions: | 1 | |
| Captured: | 2022-11-05 to 2022-11-05 | |
| Lights: | 7 | |
| Exposure: | 180 | |
| Total exposure: | 21 m | |
| Ra: | 3h 45m 49.7s | |
| Dec: | +24° 02' 7.896 | |
| Size: | 770.137 x 513.481 arcmin | |
| Radius: | 7.714 deg | |
| Scale: | 10.266 arcsec/pixel |
Tags
19 Tau 25 Tau Barnard's Merope Nebula IC341 IC349 IC353 IC354 Maia Nebula Merope Nebula NGC1432 NGC1435 The star 18 Tau The star 32 Tau The star 36 Tau The star Alcyone (η Tau) 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)
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