Observation by Nick James: M45

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2018 Nov 11 - 00:52

Uploaded

2018 Nov 12 - 15:25

Objects

The Pleiades (M45)

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Constellation

Taurus

Field centre

RA: 03^h47^m
Dec: +24°13'
Position angle: -50°20'

Field size

2°03' × 1°23'

Equipment

Takahashi Epsilon 160 f/3
ASI294MC Pro

Exposure

4x120s

Location

Tarbatness, Scotland

Target name

M45

Title

M45

About this image

A quick snapshot of the Pleiades taken on a very variable night at Denis Buczynski's observatory in northern Scotland. When the sky is dark it is very dark and transparent but there was a lot of drifting cloud around on this night so I couldn't get many subs. Two other problems with this system are that I couldn't rotate the camera so the orientation was pretty random and bright stars suffer from significant diffraction spikes which come from the Epsilon's secondary support spider. I know some people think these look nice (and even add them in software when the optics don't provide them) but I hate them. Apart from that the Tak Epsilon is a very nice design and gives a very nice flat field with a fast f ratio.

Files associated with this observation

m45_20181111_0052_ndj.jpg (948.6 kB)

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Comments

Peter Mulligan, 2018 Nov 12 - 15:45 UTC

Superb Nick

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