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Pleiades - M45 (III), Georg G Albrecht
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Pleiades - M45 (III)

Revision title: Pleiades - M45 (III) final

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Pleiades - M45 (III)

Revision title: Pleiades - M45 (III) final

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Compared with past years, seeing has not gotten better this fall here in the desert. If I am lucky, I get at best average conditions during the nights. 
I hope this is not a persistant trend related to our changing climate.

While waiting for the Seagull Nebula to rise above my roofline, I decided to take another shot at the Pleiades.

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Title: Pleiades with some Bling - M45 (added integration)

Description: I was able to add more imaging time to this target last night and my friend convinced me to let him add diffraction spikes to some of the brighter stars. Why not...

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Title: Pleiades - M45 (III) final

Description: I had some additional 4 hours of data to be added to the final stack. I think it is true that once a certain threshold has been reached, the next level to improve data, is to double it. Adding 4 hours to this stack, did in my opinion, not make any difference I could see...
However, I decided for a slightly different processing approach and left the stars more punchy. It is at the end, a bright object and the star field around just looks better being a bit more sparkly.

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Pleiades - M45 (III), Georg G Albrecht