Hi Patrick, I don't dare go too deep with this one because I think that will really overexpose the stars and cause flaring; so I will take a lot of short exposures and stack them. At least that's my theory! Also I intend to try a mosaic. Best wishes, Joe --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] M-45 To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 3:10 PM Thanks Joe,
On 10 Nov 2010, at 12:56, Joe Bauman wrote:
Very cool, Patrick! I have never managed to take a nice pic of M45, though I've tried. My theory is that with a lot of short exposures stacked, the nebulosity would show up.
This was just an experiment so I intentionally used only 1" exposures. Next time I'll go longer and maybe that will bring out some nebulosity.
I plan to try again. Of course, the sheer size of the cluster is a big problem for me; I'd have to do a mosaic to get it all in.
Now that you are running TheSky making a mosaic could be pretty easy. Let me know if you'd like some pointers and I'll talk you through it.
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