# M45-Les Pléiades Hamois le 28-12-2024-Luc Viatour

- By: Lviatour
- Date: 2024-12-28
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Own work, www.lucnix.be
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M45-Les_Pl%C3%A9iades_Hamois_le_28-12-2024-Luc_Viatour.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/M45-Les_Pl%C3%A9iades_Hamois_le_28-12-2024-Luc_Viatour.jpg/1920px-M45-Les_Pl%C3%A9iades_Hamois_le_28-12-2024-Luc_Viatour.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Astrophotography image of Messier 45 (The Pleiades).

Acquisition Details

Location: Hamois, Belgium (Bortle 4 Sky)

Integration: 5 hours total (50 x 360s)

Calibration: 50 Flats, 50 Darks, 50 Bias

Equipment

Optics: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED (861mm focal length)

Camera: Nikon Z7 (astro-modified by EOS 4Astro)

Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i

Guiding: TS-Optics 60/360 Guide Scope + ZWO ASI290MM Mini

Filter: IDAS LPS-P3

Control: ZWO ASIAIR Plus

Processing

PixInsight (BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator, NarrowbandNormalization, GHS)

Darktable & GIMP on Linux