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M 45, Markice Stephenson
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M 45

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M 45

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After having tried for this target every year that I've had the chance to, this is definitely my favorite one. I aimed to pull out as much of the local dust as possible and was very happy with the result (particularly the help from GraXpert in removing the complicated gradients caused by the neighboring lights pointed towards my imaging setup). I probably could have continued, but I am only getting about an hour of imaging time on this object before it's obstructed, and following this full moon it will be less. My computer also started struggling to stack after reaching the 1,200 sub mark. The total project took up >1TB of space and took a couple days to stack (using GESD).

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