M45/Pleiades/Seven Sisters in LRGB (John Kroon)

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M45/Pleiades/Seven Sisters in LRGB

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M45/Pleiades/Seven Sisters in LRGB

This is a much better second attempt at the somewhat underrated Pleiades cluster. My first attempt is objectively inferior. It was taken under Bortle 4/5 skies. This new one was taken from a Bortle 1/2 site and processed with a better know-how than I did a year or two ago. The brown dust seen off to the side and surrounding areas is an aspect that I have never seen before except in some of the best images of M45 that I only discovered the night I was shooting this. I'm glad to have picked up that reddish-brown dust signal this time around.

EDIT: The seeing was the worst I have ever seen in my entire life. The stars even up to 50 degrees altitude were like strobe lights. Absolutely intense atmospheric turbulence. As a result, the finest details of the nebula are blurred out.

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RA (center)	03h47m01s.36
RA (top/left)	03h50m28s.67
RA (top/right)	03h43m24s.32
RA (bottom/right)	03h43m37s.65
RA (bottom/left)	03h50m34s.88

Dec (center)	+24°07′22″.7
Dec (top/left)	+25°11′34″.2
Dec (top/right)	+25°09′51″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°02′55″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+23°04′33″.9

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