M45 - Pleiades - Wide Field (Awni Hafedh)

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M45 - Pleiades - Wide Field

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M45 - Pleiades - Wide Field

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Oct 25th, 2019 - We were invited to Cadillac, MI to do some astrophotography, I've been planning and hoping for one good night, so I decided to capture Pleiades M45 using ASI1600 and Rokinon 135mm lens wide field view.

Now I knew this object will be visible from sunset all the way to sunrise which is very nice, but I also wanted to use every minute of it to try to get the super faint cloud details that surrounds M45 which is the main reason for a super dark sky.

So for two weeks all I did was making sure my setup is perfectly collimated as well as tilt free thanks to the (HoTech Laser collimator), and been testing a lot to get perfectly round stars edge to edge, and luckily we got Friday night with a perfectly clear sky all night.

The night started by setting everything and connected my ASI1600MC-cool (One Shot Color) first to capture as many color frames as I can, total frames captured were (120subs x 60sec) at gain 139

Around 1:00am I switched back to ASI1600MM-cool (Mono) and captured as many frames as I can till sunrise, total of (300subs x 30sec) at gain 139

Processing those subs were brutal for PixInsight, ended up getting a Lum and RGB master frames, combined them to create LRGB and did some stretching and saturation as best as I can without destroying the background, I really like the final results.

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Astrometry.net job	3025232
PixInsight job	TLPOX8LM98VA5EA9TWOZ843488MSZMA0
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RA (center)	03h48m34s.70
RA (top/left)	03h32m12s.80
RA (top/right)	04h04m49s.33
RA (bottom/right)	04h05m40s.62
RA (bottom/left)	03h31m32s.90

Dec (center)	+24°12′20″.6
Dec (top/left)	+21°16′32″.7
Dec (top/right)	+21°14′47″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+27°01′12″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+27°03′08″.3

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