ASTRO: Pleaides Cluster

It has been a few years since I had the FS102 out for any imaging so I
thought it would be a good idea to get it out and use it. It was fairly
breezy through the whole weekend. I had heard that gail warnings were
posted for the lakes. The light weight FS 102 did not move a bit in the wind
throughout the night when mounted on my CG-11 mount. This is data from this
morning with the moon still up. I used the telescope @ f/8 and shot 4 subs
totaling 30 minutes with the modded Canon 400D @ 800asa. There is a small
galaxy near the right lower edge.

Joe

Very nice picture Joe. Processing looks spot on, you have a nice grey sky
background for the nebula. You often see images of M45 where even the empty
sky looks blue.

Stefan

"J McBride" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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It has been a few years since I had the FS102 out for any imaging so I
thought it would be a good idea to get it out and use it. It was fairly
breezy through the whole weekend. I had heard that gail warnings were
posted for the lakes. The light weight FS 102 did not move a bit in the
wind
throughout the night when mounted on my CG-11 mount. This is data from
this
morning with the moon still up. I used the telescope @ f/8 and shot 4
subs
totaling 30 minutes with the modded Canon 400D @ 800asa. There is a small
galaxy near the right lower edge.

Joe

J McBride wrote:

It has been a few years since I had the FS102 out for any imaging so I
thought it would be a good idea to get it out and use it. It was fairly
breezy through the whole weekend. I had heard that gail warnings were
posted for the lakes. The light weight FS 102 did not move a bit in the wind
throughout the night when mounted on my CG-11 mount. This is data from this
morning with the moon still up. I used the telescope @ f/8 and shot 4 subs
totaling 30 minutes with the modded Canon 400D @ 800asa. There is a small
galaxy near the right lower edge.

Joe

Works well for blue light as well as red. Nice shot. I don't have
anything with a large enough fov for something like this. Best I can do
is one star at a time. The red star in its center came out well. Seems
so out of place, especially visually. Most photos so over expose it you
don't see the color like you do in your shot.

Rick

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"J McBride" wrote
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Hey, that's one beautiful image! Love it!

I had the use of an FS102 on a Tak mount that a friend let me use for a
weekend. It provided great wide-vield views.

George N