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Hyades  (Caldwell 41), Joe Matthews
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Hyades (Caldwell 41)

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Hyades (Caldwell 41)

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Last night was the first night in over a week that was clear enough to image.  Seeing wasn't great last night I do think there were high clouds.  But I was just happy to be able to get out and image.  This is my first time trying to capture the Hyades.

I processed this image mainly with the Latest version of Siril version 1.2.0-beta1.  I always donate to Siril and if I had known this version would be released so soon, I would have held off on PixInsight.

I am planning on updating this image for I am still getting used to the new Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch Transform in the new version of Siril.

The Hyades (/ˈhaɪ.ədiːz/Greek Ὑάδες, also known as Caldwell 41Collinder 50, or Melotte 25) is the nearest open cluster and one of the best-studied star clusters. Located about 153 light-years (47 parsecs) away from the Sun, it consists of a roughly spherical group of hundreds of stars sharing the same age, place of origin, chemical characteristics, and motion through space.From the perspective of observers on Earth, the Hyades Cluster appears in the constellationTaurus, where its brightest stars form a "V" shape along with the still-brighter Aldebaran. However, Aldebaran is unrelated to the Hyades, as it is located much closer to Earth and merely happens to lie along the same line of sight.The five brightest member stars of the Hyades have consumed the hydrogen fuel at their cores and are now evolving into giant stars. Four of these stars, with Bayer designationsGammaDelta 1Epsilon, and Theta Tauri, form an asterism that is traditionally identified as the head of Taurus the Bull. The fifth of these stars is Theta1 Tauri, a tight naked-eye companion to the brighter Theta2 Tauri. Epsilon Tauri, known as Ain (the "Bull's Eye"), has a gas giant exoplanet candidate, the first planet to be found in any open cluster.The age of the Hyades is estimated to be about 625 million years. The core of the cluster, where stars are the most densely packed, has a radius of 8.8 light-years (2.7 parsecs), and the cluster's tidal radius – where the stars become more strongly influenced by the gravity of the surrounding Milky Waygalaxy – is 33 light-years (10 parsecs). However, about one-third of confirmed member stars have been observed well outside the latter boundary, in the cluster's extended halo; these stars are probably in the process of escaping from its gravitational influence.

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Hyades  (Caldwell 41), Joe Matthews