A Post Processing Project: The Pleiades – M45

Well, we must all make good use of our time these days and since I am stuck at home during the day and I have cloudy nights I thought I would work on my Post Processing of others data. This data came from a website that no longer is up, I got it two years ago from www.rawastrodata.com

The gear used was Orion 8” Newtonian f/3.9; Nikon D300; Baader Moon & Skyglow Filter; Celestron CGEM mount. The data was taken over four different nights. On 11/18/2012 he did 60s / 800 ISO; 36 Light, 15 Darks, 24 Flats, and 25 Dark Flats. On 11/21/2012 he did 60s / 640 ISO; 83 Light, 30 Darks, 30 Flats, 16 Dark Flats. On 11/22/2012 he did 60s / 800 ISO; 60 Light, 27 Darks, 30 Flats, 30 Dark Flats. And on 12/19/2012 he used 35s / 800 ISO; 130 Light, 50 Darks, 49 Flats, 36 Dark Flats.

I am rather pleased with this go round of processing with Star Tools Version 1.6, what I did two years ago wasn’t worthy.