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On the 15th January 2011 the open cluster of Pleiades was occulted by The Moon, as seen from Western Australia.
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This photograph is a composite of many. To record the stars, the exposure time needed to be 1 second. To record the detail on the moon it needed to be 1/640th second. The two sets of each exposure time were combined to form the image shown.
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| Camera: | Canon 7D | | Lens/Telescope: | William Optics Megrez 90 APO | | Focal Length: | Approx 520mm | | Aperture: | 90mm | | Exposure Time: | 20 x 1/640th second stacked + 20 x 1 second stacked. | | ISO: | 400 | | Date: | 15th January 2011 |
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