The Pleiades star cluster, or Seven Sisters, aka Messier 45, in Taurus. The brightest part of the reflection nebula around the Pleiades at bottom is the Merope Nebula, IC 349. In this image. I’ve shot long exposures at low ISO speeds to record faint structure at low noise, to allow me to bring out the faint dusty nebulosity all around the region in processing. This is a stack of 10 x 12 minute exposures with the filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 400 through the TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/4.5 with the Borg. 0.85x field flattener/reducer. Taken from New Mexico, Nov 17, 2014.
M45 with Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph, with Canon 7D for 6 x 12 minutes at ISO400, as test of 7D noise. Last couple of images taken with Moon coming up. Stacked with Statistics: Mean. Extreme contrast boost. Noise Ninja and Reduce Noise applied to Smart Object.
M46 and M47 open clusters, with NGC 2423 above. Taken with 77mm Borg refractor at f/4.3 and Hutech-modified Canon 5D camera at ISO 800 for stack of 4 x 4 minute exposures. Taken from Ryder Cottage, April 11, 2007.
