Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Pleiades wide field, georgian82
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Pleiades wide field

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Pleiades wide field

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Description

Lens was stopped down to f/4 and the camera was put inside a homemade thermoelectric cooling box. Average sensor temperature was 25F.

I tried to stretch the data more to get more nebulosity but the noise becomes too much so I settled for more contrast instead.

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  • Pleiades wide field, georgian82
    Original
  • Pleiades wide field, georgian82
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  • Pleiades wide field, georgian82
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  • Pleiades wide field, georgian82
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  • Pleiades wide field, georgian82
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  • Final
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B

Description: A bit more stretched to get nebulosity out and no noise reduction.

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C

Description: Data stretched more at the expense of noise.

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D

Description: focused more on contrast rather than surrounding nebulosity/dust. It hides the noise too =)

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E

Description: I used a combination of lightness mask and range mask to extract nebulosity while keeping noise relatively low

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Pleiades wide field, georgian82