
The Pleiades star cluster (M45) taken from my driveway in Alaska last night (bortle 4).
Canon Rebel T6 with 135mm Rokinon lens
F2.8, ISO 400
81 60 second exposures
SA GTI mount
All post processing in Siril. OSC pre process, Crop, background extraction, photometric color calibration, starnet star removal, asinh stretch, histogram stretch, curve adjustments, saturation adjustments, star recomp, final stretching
It was less than ideal conditions due to a Crescent moon, some light clouds, and light pollution from the neighbors flood lights (they will graciously turn them off at my request but I decided not to bother). I shot this last year without a tracking mount doing short 1.6 second exposures to avoid star trails. Being able to take long exposures with the equatorial mount made a huge difference.
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Here is my image from November of 2024
It looks like a skull 💀