Pleiades
Taken by project nightflight on October 23, 2026 @
La Palma island
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Only a few decades ago astrophotographers would go to great lengths for shooting widefield images of deep sky objects. The typical setup was made of a film camera riding piggyback on a telescope or a simple barn door tracker. After developing the film one would hope that the stars didn’t trail too much during the exposure and some nebulosity, e.g. the Merope nebula, had left a subtle impression on the negative.
Today, with the wide availability of smart telescopes, everything has changed. Devices like the Seestar or Dwarf scopes are set up easily, go to the imaging object all by themselves, patiently collect the data, stack the images and even develop the final image. The results rival the pictures in any astronomy textbook.
This image of the Plejades was shot with a Seestar S30P from La Palma island with less than 1 hour exposure time, the result shown here came directly out of the App.
Photographer's website:
https://project-nightflight.net
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