Pleiades and part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (Die Launische Diva)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 11 Tau · 13 Tau · 14 Tau · 14.06 · 14.07 · 14.39 · 15.35 · 16 Tau · 17 Tau · 175 Andromache · 18 Tau · 20 Tau · 21 Tau · 22 Tau · 23 Tau · 24 Tau · 25 eta Tau · 259 Aletheia · 26 Tau · 27 Tau · 28 Tau · 303 Josephina · 32 Tau · 33 Tau · 36 Tau · 37 A01 Tau · 39 A02 Tau · 41 Tau · 42 psi Tau · 43 Tau · And 45 more.

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Pleiades and part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud

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Pleiades and part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud

This is a project I'm working for the last month or so, using a trial version of PixInsight.

There is still work to do towards a better background modelization (more important), and star shaping/reduction (less important). PixInsight has so many processes to use and so many buttons to press. This can be either for good, for example, I found a good reference image which I register and used it as a guide for DBE sample placement; or for bad: I am still trying several methods in order to repair egg-shaped stars (deconvolution, morphological transformations, etc.) with no joy (yet!)

NGC 1514 (Crystal Ball nebula, the teal-colored fuzzy ball towards the lower left corner of the image) was a nice surprise for me. Against the nice brown colors of the TMC, it should be a great target for longer focal lengths.

The framing is not ideal: I wasn't aware I could record the dust and went straight for Pleiades, while the Taurus Molecular Cloud deserved more attention.

For some supplementary material (a single light frame, assisted DBE sample placement trick) please visit http://astrob.in/288249/0/

As always, your comments are welcome!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	1503643
PixInsight job	M6UZHPISWJA62BWYTUCX5TKBGJ35T5QX
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RA (center)	03h51m04s.6
RA (top/left)	03h28m28s.8
RA (top/right)	03h30m36s.10
RA (bottom/right)	04h11m13s.4
RA (bottom/left)	04h13m58s.8

Dec (center)	+24°23′50″
Dec (top/left)	+31°35′54″
Dec (top/right)	+17°02′10″
Dec (bottom/right)	+16°59′33″
Dec (bottom/left)	+31°32′21″

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