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 constellations of Puppis and Vela in the southern Milky Way, plus the large Gum Nebula. This is a stack of 4 x 6 minute exposures at f/4 with the Sigma 50mm lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800, plus 2 x 6 minutes with Kenko Softon filter for star glows. Taken from Atacama Lodge near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, May, 2011.
The Rosette Nebula NGC 2237, at bottom, with open clsuter NGC 2244, and complex of nebulosity in Monoceros above, including Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster, and Monoceros dark nebula complex. This is a stack of 5 x 8 miniute exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 800 with Canon 5D MkII and Canon L-series 135mm lens.
