M45 II

It took us 3 Terran months to make another jump. The currents of the Immaterium were more treacherous than ever, and either we waited for the right conditions or we risked falling into oblivion. 

Following the technique of making lots of exposures, the tech priests gathered enough data to prepare for a jump. 11 hours of data gathering, no less. We have not computed the size in disk and CPU hours run, but both figures run higher than in our previous jump to Andromeda. Anyway, following some weak signals, we returned to the M45 cluster. During the jump, as usual, we produced an image for the gallactic map of the navigators. It was better than the previous one, although we expected something a little bit better. We might need to double resources, ie gather twice as much light.

M45

• 670m from ca 1500 shots of 20-30s at ISO 1600, several days
• Sensor temperature ca 60% at 21ºC,  40% at 14ºC
• CEFA 400000 m x cm2 x arcsec2
• EOS 6D, Sigma 400 5.6, CG5, plain introcope based alignment
• Bortle 8