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.
The area of Ophiuchus and Scorpius with the globular clusters M19 (at centre) and M62 (at bottom left). The dark lane intruding from the left is the Pipe Nebula. This is a stack of 5 x 2-minute exposures with the 200mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600.
Sagitta and Dumbbell Nebula, M27, taken Aug 15, 2007 from home. Stack of 3 x 4 minute exposures at ISO800 with Canon 20Da and 135mm L-lens at f/2.8. Field equals 7° bino field.
