Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  13 tet Per  ·  29 Per  ·  31 Per  ·  33 alf Per  ·  34 Per  ·  35 sig Per  ·  37 psi Per  ·  39 del Per  ·  IC 256  ·  IC 260  ·  Mirphak  ·  NGC 1160  ·  NGC 1161  ·  NGC 1169  ·  NGC 1245  ·  NGC 1348  ·  Part of the constellation Perseus (Per)  ·  Perseus  ·  The star 29Per  ·  The star 31Per  ·  The star 34Per  ·  The star Mirfak (αPer)  ·  The star δPer  ·  The star θPer  ·  The star ιPer  ·  The star σPer  ·  The star ψPer  ·  iot Per
Mirfak and Friends: Alpha Persei Cluster / Melotte 20 / Collinder 39, Jonathan W MacCollum
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Mirfak and Friends: Alpha Persei Cluster / Melotte 20 / Collinder 39

Mirfak and Friends: Alpha Persei Cluster / Melotte 20 / Collinder 39, Jonathan W MacCollum
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Mirfak and Friends: Alpha Persei Cluster / Melotte 20 / Collinder 39

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Just a quick shot at the large Open Cluster around Mirfak

Very basic processing on this one due to the low integration time.

* TGV Noise Reduction

* Multiscale Median Noise Reduction

* HSV Repaired Separation Script

* Arcsinh + Histogram Stretch

* Morphological Selection on stars with a contours based mask to shrink stars

* Curves to bring out the star colors

* HDR Multiscale Transformation to minimize star halos

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Mirfak and Friends: Alpha Persei Cluster / Melotte 20 / Collinder 39, Jonathan W MacCollum