M45 - Pleiades (Alessandro Cernuzzi)

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M45 - Pleiades

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M45 - Pleiades

Pleiades, M45, imaged to no end but always so beautiful.

Shooting broadband target from a Bortle 8 zone is a lot of work for "small" results. This is an "old image, I have improved a lot since then, I definitely go back to this beauty and give it justice.

40 dark and bias

40 flats

4 min exposures ISO 800 with a Stock Canon SL2 (5hr 50min)

3 min exposures ISO 400 with a Canon SL2 modified with a Baader BCF filter. (4hr 51min)

William Optics Zenithstar61+flattener

DEC Modified iOptron Skyguider pro

IDAS LPS D1 light pollution filter, fighting a Bortle 8 sky

ZWO guidescope with ASI120MM Mini guide camera

Skywatcher 1.75" tripod

Z-Bolt Galaxy III sub-zero blue laser pointer

Astrophotography Tool

PHD2

Deepsky Stacker

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Description: Just a reprocess of the same data. The data is pretty bad, but my post-processing skills have much improved! ;)

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RA (center)	03h46m21s.24
RA (top/left)	03h39m35s.39
RA (top/right)	03h45m52s.63
RA (bottom/right)	03h53m02s.97
RA (bottom/left)	03h46m50s.83

Dec (center)	+24°13′24″.5
Dec (top/left)	+25°01′01″.2
Dec (top/right)	+22°29′39″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°24′30″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+25°57′04″.2

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