Pleiades – Messier 45, Dec’21

I found some unused material from M45 while reorganizing my data. The data is from 2021, the telescope has long since been sold, and I first reprocessed it in 2023, then revised it again in 2025 using a new workflow.

71 individual exposures of 180 seconds each. While sorting my photo files, I found these previously unused frames and immediately put them through my standard processing workflow. I sold the telescope used for this image, the Vixen ED80sf, more than a year ago.
Update Nov 2025: I have reprocessed the data once again. On Astrobin the different versions can still be compared.

High-resolution on Astrobin:

The high-resolution astrophoto on Astrobin with a wealth of additional information.

The annotated image:

Technical overview

TelescopeVixen ED80sf
Focal Length600mm
Erecting LenseTSFlat2
CameraCANON EOS M100(a)
Guiding Equipment162 mm
Guiding CameraOmegon Pro 1200b
Photography Date12/20/2021
12/21/2021
Exposure-Time Lights71x180s
Correction framesFLATS, BIASES
SensitivityISO 800
Capture PlaceKoblenz, Germany

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