The star Celaeno (16 Tau)
Images
It began with the simple thought: what would it look like if I took the monochrome images I captured with the Redcat and the one-shot color images captured with HyperStar? The result is this, one of my favorite versions of the Seven Sisters.
2024-01-17
Was testing out the new HyperStar and gathered 119 45-second subs before the winds became too strong to image accurately. HyperStar gathers light 25x faster than the unmodified EdgeHD.
2024-01-16
A longer look at the Pleiades reveals the faint dust and tendrils of blue nebulae that interconnect the bright blue stars of this bright cluster.
2023-11-17
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.
2022-11-05
My favorite signal of winter is the magical faint glow that glimmers in your peripheral vision but fades to a blur when you gaze head on. Magnification reveals several bright blue stars burrowing through long filaments of ionized gas and dust. The brightest of these are the famed Seven Sisters or Pleiades.
2022-11-17
One of my favorite winter targets, the Pleiades are easily visible as a bright cluster of stars that resemble a 'tiny dipper.' You can see their faint bluish/purple glow with the naked eye and the Seven Sisters are photogenic and multiple focal lengths. This is a series of broadband RGB long exposures to bring out the subtle dust and nebulosity that surround this young group of stars.
2022-09-26