Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Maia nebula  ·  Merope nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star Atlas (27Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28Tau)  ·  The star Sterope I (21Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (19Tau)  ·  The star ηTau
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M45 - The Pleiades, Wes Chilton
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M45 - The Pleiades

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M45 - The Pleiades

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This is a work in progress image from, frankly, rather poor data. The weather here has been windy, cloudy and unstable. But I couldn't stand being inside any more so I decided to get out and shoot something. ;)

FWHM ranged from 1.9 to nearly 4.2 making stacking this data pretty rough. Also being in a white zone meant really bad gradients and other unwanted signal noise.

I did a bit of DBE, which helped, but I'm still learning how to get the most out of that.

Thanks to Tolga for pointing me at Rogelio's HLVG Script, which helped a lot with green noise.

I'll be getting better data on this and trying again as soon as the weather improves.

UPDATE: I uploaded a different version that uses LRGBCombination process technique. Its more neutral and gives better star colors, but exposes the seeing flaws a lot more.

Revision D is just a new reprocess of my 600-second RGB data to try and increase contrast and get better star colors. Its still not perfect and I need better data from dark skies....

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