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The Pleiades (M45), Will Czaja
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The Pleiades (M45)

The Pleiades (M45), Will Czaja
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The Pleiades (M45)

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Shot this while testing my new Moonlite NiteCrawler focuser. I can't recommend the NiteCrawler enough. It just works perfectly with zero hassles. My HFR went from ~2.5 to 1.2 and it nails the V curve every single time. Also got rid of almost all tilt in the image train. And having a rotator is awesome!

I chose these beautiful blue Seven Sisters as my first test target. I did preprocessing and color calibration in PixInsight, then exported and finished in LightRoom and Topaz AI Denoise.

3 hours of RGB data, no luminance, no flat frames.

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