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Stéphane Picard
Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada
03/12/2023
09:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon T1i with 300 mm lens. F5.6 ISO 3200 piggybacked on Celestron Nexstar 6SE for tracking. 300 frames at 3 seconds each. Stacked with keeping 95% best frames.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with 30 darks and 30 flats. Image processing in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Image Details:

Messier 48 near the Hydra constellation and to the left of the star Sirius. It's an open cluster with about 80 stars visible easily to binoculars or small telescopes. More than 50 stars are magnitude 13 or brighter. It's about 1,500 LY away and approximately 24 LY across. Estimated at 300 million years old which is young in stellar terms which is why there are many blue young stars.