M45 (Pleiades Open Cluster) (silversilk)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 19 Tau) · 25 Tau) · Barnard's Merope Nebula · IC 349 · Maia Nebula · Merope Nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · Sterope I (21 Tau) · The star 18 Tau · The star Alcyone (η Tau · The star Asterope · The star Atlas (27 Tau) · The star Celaeno (16 Tau) · The star Electra (17 Tau) · The star Merope (23 Tau) · The star Pleione (28 Tau) · The star Sterope II (22 Tau) · The star Taygeta (q Tau

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M45 (Pleiades Open Cluster)

Revision title: M45 (GHS Stretch for more dust detail)

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Revision title: M45 (GHS Stretch for more dust detail)

After imaging everything with the L-Extreme for the past year (because isn't that what everyone is doing these days with OSC?), I have started to learn that it has its place as well as its drawbacks. As I have gotten back into the hobby over the past year, I learned the hard way that that narrow band filter is not going to work on every target. Secondly, getting proper color calibration is always challenging for me with data from the filter, specifically star color.

With that said, it has been nice to go back to the L-Pro these past few projects and pull down some very natural looking and pleasingly colorful images. I live and image in bortle 4 (and can drive to a location at around 8K ft. and bortle 1 in less than an hour but have yet to take the rig on the road) so I am learning that I dont always need that L-Extreme. I am learning how to put some of the Ha data captured with that filter into my L-Pro images but have not mastered that just yet. Hoping to get that skill-set tuned up and ready for the upcoming action in Orion.

As always, comments, critique, or pointers are always welcome!

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Title: M45 (GHS Stretch for more dust detail)

Description: Another go at processing this using the GHS stretch method to really bring out the fainter dust in the region.

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