Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  19 Tau)  ·  25 Tau)  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Sterope I (21 Tau)  ·  The star 18 Tau  ·  The star Alcyone (η Tau  ·  The star Asterope  ·  The star Atlas (27 Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16 Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17 Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23 Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28 Tau)  ·  The star Sterope II (22 Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (q Tau
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M45 - The Pleiades, Luc Germain
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M45 - The Pleiades

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M45 - The Pleiades

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A new version of this open cluster for 2022. It's a notable improvement from my last attempt 2 years ago!

Reflection nebulosity is always a challenge in light polluted sky (Bortle 7). The next step to improve on this target would be to go under darker skies I guess...

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Description: No clear skies during the holidays, so I decided to try PixInsight for the first time. Quite a learning curve, but with the help of BlurXTerminator trial and GHS, I'm happy with this reprocess. Much smaller stars and more details overall!

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M45 - The Pleiades, Luc Germain