Pleiades

[MarkS]

Here are the Pleiades taken over 2 nights in December.

H-alpha modded Canon 350D on Takahashi Epsilon 180ED with IR/UV filter

92x300sec exposures at ISO 800 plus 12x 150sec exposures at ISO 400 (to reduce star saturation)



Larger version here:
http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/2014/pleiades20141219v4.jpg
[Edit:  changed the above link to v4 because v3 still had the Canon vertical banding]
Mark

[JohnP]

That came out well - nicely processed.....

[MarkH]

Mark that is superb! Congratulations.

[The Thing]

Lovely and sparkly, that would make a good Christmas card.

[Kenny]

That's awesome!

[MarkS]

Thanks for your comments. 
Even though I tend to be overcritical of my images, this one is an image I'm actually pleased with!

Mark

[doug]

That is beautiful, Mark. Another raving success from the Shelley stables.

Doug.

[RobertM]

That looks excellent, I wondered why you'd been so quiet

Robert

[julian]

That's a very nice image Mark

[RobertM]

Just had a look on the big screen and it looks wonderful.  There seems to be some vignetting effect going on in a couple of corners but that's barely noticeable.

Great image !

[MarkS]

Thanks all for your comments !

[Carole]

Lovely image Mark, lots of surrounding gas, and nice colour.

Carole

[Fay]

Really nice image Mark!!!

[Mike]

Wow!