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.
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 |