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Pleiades and California

Category:Deep Sky
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Pleiades and California
Resolution:
2560x1707 px
File size:
993 KB

Technical information

Telescope/Lens
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens
Camera
Canon EOS 650D (astro-modified)
Mount
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Software
Pix, Fitstacker, Photoshop
Location
Красноярск, Россия

Light pollution

Green, Bortle 4 zone

Exposure

  • 11 × 300″ · ISO/Gain: 800

Total exposure: 55 m

Comments

Seldony iLushkersky
Another beautiful deep-sky landscape!!
I’d like to ask about the astrotracker: how does it perform? With guiding or without? How many seconds does it hold at long focal lengths?
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Pavel ZhukovReply to Seldony iLushkersky
Thank you!
The tracker is good; with polar alignment using the finder scope, it can guide for an average of 1.5 minutes on a Canon crop sensor with a 135mm lens. With guiding, I captured 5-minute exposures using a 178 camera and an 85mm lens (6 arcseconds per pixel).
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Pavel ZhukovReply to Seldony iLushkersky
Again, it depends on the object's declination. Colleagues from the forum, using guiding and refractors around 400 mm, have successfully captured it. It's certainly a challenge, but it's possible.
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Seldony iLushkerskyReply to Pavel Zhukov
Thank you for your response! I've had my eye on the pro version for a long time.
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