Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star Merope (23 Tau)
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NGC1435 Detail, wsg
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NGC1435 Detail

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NGC1435 Detail, wsg
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NGC1435 Detail

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I started to shoot M45 with my 130/533 combination in October with the intention of doing a close up, but the full moon and current winter clouds have limited that effort to just 3 hours of subs.  So I loaded all the subs I could find of M45 from all my files old and new, that were close in FL size with good stars into Pixinsight to see what I could make.
I then cropped the integrated image to feature the most interesting reflection and dust areas as well as eliminating any framing artifact.
I used images that varied in exposure time from 300 seconds to some older frames that were just 30 seconds in length so 180 seconds is roughly the average time for the older sub frames.

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