M45 again, more subs.

Took 3hours to process this. 391 images totalling 3hours 39mins @1600ISO, flats, darks and bias applied.
There is more and more detail being dragged out from my street lamp soaked skies.

M45 16th Oct 2010

Another two hours worth of data added to the stuff from the other week.
I'll need to work on this a bit more, so this is just a quick process.

Oops!!!

When imaging M45, please remember to remove the focusing mask.
That was a waste of a half dozen images. Ha ho whaddoya know!

Quick! it's clear...

well, it was last night.
Managed to bag a few deepsky objects using my Takahashi. Here is the first M45; 51Min worth of 30sec subs, darks,flats & bias applied. Processed in DSS and CS5:-

And here is the Perseus double open cluster NGC 884 & NGC 869.

Also NGC752, to the right are a high number of galaxies, but they wouldn't be seen in this almost test frame of only 17 x 30sec frames. Bah!

M31 & M45 27th Sept 2009

Managed to get out last night with my Takahashi, first time for ages :-)
Thought I'd try some easy targets M31 & M45, although not so easy to process.
I imaged M31 for 2 hours and M45 for 1 before calling it a day(night) at 3:00 in the morning... zzzzz.
When I finished, my C9.25 (which was piggy backing the Tak) corrector plate was covered in ice!
I realised that after moving to M45, that the scope wasn't quite in sharp focus, so some of these stars are a bit bloated.

Larger wide field view... processed another way.

New Moon and M45.

I took these leaning out of our spare bedroom window with the Tak resting on a cushion :-0

M45 from CN

Here is my M45 processed by Eric Jacob from the Cloudy Nights forum.
Thanks Eric, and everyone else who had a go.

Eric's workflow:-
Here's what I done did to it in Photoshop CS:
1. Set the black point using Levels.
2. A slight Curve on the red channel to kill a little of the skyglow.
3. Noel Carboni tool: Color Blotch Reduction. It didn't do much, not much blotchiness there to start with.
4. Horizontal and Vertical Banding Noise Reduction (also a Carboni tool, also didn't do much).
5. Peter's Astro tool: Darken Background.
6. A slight Curve to regain some brightness.
7. Peter's Astro tool: Star Trail Elimination.
8. Carboni tool: Space Noise Reduction.
9. Resized to 700 pixels and Saved For Web at 72 percent quality.

M45

M45 again using Noel's tools, with and without starbursts.

M45 - with more subs.

3 hrs, 7 mins, 273 frames.

M45 - 22nd Oct 2008

M45 - results from 3 nights. Two Versions.

M45 - 1st and 6th Oct data combined

Some more data, 85 subs totalling 1 hr 25 min.

M45 - Pleiades 1st Oct 2008

First light, quick process of M45 from last night. 25 x 1 minute subs @ 1600 ISO
It could do with a lot more data.