The Pleiades with the Fornax Lightrack tracker and 200mm lens + Canon 5D MkII. Trailed in this stack of 10 x 3 minute exposures at ISO 800., due to poor polar alignment due to polar scope not being orthogonal to the polar axis. Trailed in RA and Dec so not trailed just because of drive errors. Useful as a demo image and as a small illustration.
The Pleiades star cluster, Messier 45, amid the faint and dusty nebulosity that surrounds it. The stars of the Pleiades are passing through the dust clouds in Taurus and are lighting them up as examples of reflection nebulas. This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures at ISO 400 with the Canon EOS Ra on the SharpStar HNT150 Hyperbolic Newtonian astrograph at f/2.8. Flat-fielded in PixInsight using T-shirt flats, and developed in Photoshop. Taken from home January 27, 2020.
