Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Maia nebula  ·  Merope nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star 18Tau  ·  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, John Watson
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M45 - The Pleiades

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M45 - The Pleiades, John Watson
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M45 - The Pleiades

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I managed to obtain 6 x 10 minute exposures of M45 at the end of a night mostly imaging M33. It was dropping into light polluted skies at approx 1-2 am on 17th December. Processed with 5 darks, 10 flats and 30 bias which were actually obtained while the scope was pointed at M33 but I thought they'd be worth using for this image as well. Batch Pre-Processed and background neutralised in Pixinsight. Then de-noised and curves done in Photoshop. I must learn more about masks in Pixinsight so I can use that software's noise reduction. I may re-edit this image but was pleased with the results of some basic processing.

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M45 - The Pleiades, John Watson