M45 & NGC457 The Pleiades and ET Cluster

I had a couple of clear nights in a row, the weather patterns must be changing. The has been a horrible summer for astrophotography. I started M45 & NGC 457 on Aug 15,2013 & was just able to finish both on Sept 5.

 

M45 The Pleiades Cluster

 

I waited until about 2am both nights to capture this.

Camera::QHYCCD QHY9M
Telescope: AstroTech AT65EDQ

 

Imaged Aug 14 & Sept 5

 

Luminance 9x600 bin 1x1 (90 min)
Red 6x300 bin 2x2 (30 min)
Green 6x300 2x2 (30 min)
Blue 9x300 bin 2x2 (45 min)

Cropped & Rotated

 

I blended in some elements of "last year's" Pleiades taken with my ED102T CF seen below:

 

Taken 11/7/2011 with T3i & ST-80T
 

 

 

 

NGC 457 The "ET" Cluster

 

Camera::QHYCCD QHY9M
Telescope: AstroTech AT65EDQ

 

Imaged Aug 14 & Sept 5

Luminance 8x600 bin 1x1 (80 min)
Red 6x300 bin 2x2  (30 min)
Green 6x300 bin 2x2 (30 min)
Blue 6x300 bin 2x2 (30 min)

View larger size here:

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/member-galleries/p11824-ngc-457-et-cluster.html

Full size

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