Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  -4.55  ·  11 Tau  ·  13.37  ·  16 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  32 Tau  ·  33 Tau  ·  9 Tau  ·  94 Aurora  ·  Alcyone  ·  Asterope  ·  Atlas  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  IC 349  ·  IC 353  ·  IC 354  ·  M 45  ·  And 22 more.
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Venus and M45 - Version 2, Todd Stephens
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Venus and M45 - Version 2

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Venus and M45 - Version 2

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Conjunction of Venus and M45, from 4/4/2020. Venus was much better positioned to capture some of the reflection nebula, so rather than doing a composite, this is all data from one night. I got 123 20-second light frames, 30 darks, 30 flats, and 30 dark flats with my stock Canon 500D, Rokinon 135mm f/2 at f/2.4, and Skyguider Pro. I removed the stars with Starnet++, which allowed me to be much more aggressive with the noise reduction, since this ancient camera has some pretty bad fixed pattern noise. Processed and recombined with the stars, and final touch-ups in GIMP.

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Venus and M45 - Version 2, Todd Stephens