M45 aka The Pleiades
Scope: Astro-Physics AP155EDFbr/ Mount: Paramount MEbr/ Camera: Apogee Instruments U16M with Astrodon Gen II LRGB filtersbr/ Exposures: Luminance 15 x 5 minutes; RGB 12 x 10 min per channelbr/ Images captured in CCDSoft with TheSky6 orchestrated by CCD-Commanderbr/ Calibration in Maxim; Levels, curves and other tweaks in Photoshop CS4br/ Location and date: Flesherton, Ontario, Canada; Oct, 2011