M45

Pleiades

Object Info

Type

Open Cluster

Constellation

Taurus

Distance

440 ly

Date

November 13, 2020

Location

Little Blair Valley, Anza-Borrego Desert, CA

Exposure

Lum 12x5, R 4x5, G 4x5 B 6x5 (bin 1x1)

Notes

The small galaxy at 3 o'clock is PGC 13696 at a 17.8 magnitude

Optics

Takahashi FSQ-106N Refractor

Focal Length

530mm @f/5

Mount

Astro-Physics 900GTO

Camera

FLI ML-8300

Focuser

Robo-Focus

Filters

FLI CFW2-7, Astrodon Gen 2 LRGB

Software

Maxim DL, CCDStack, Photoshop