The Pleiades (Bogdan Borz)

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The Pleiades were a project on my bucket list for a while. I cannot shoot LRGB at home due to light pollution, so I took my small William Optics refractor and its weird reducer that still needs to be refined for better field correction, with me on vacation in the Pyrénées mountains. And as always, there is a story to tell : ) . I had only 3 clear nights. My cottage had a nice view and opening to the South over the mountains. But no view of the North, including Polaris. So I bravely thought I am going to do a first polar drift align using PHD2 on the balcony. Well, it did not work... It looked ok when I finished the drift, but PHD was simply incapable of guiding correctly afterwards (probably too far off). I gave up and lost a clear night. I managed to install the scope in between two cottages for the other 2 nights, and in between the lights for the end of the year, the smoke from the chimneys and the Pleiades hiding behind a roof I managed to gather around 9h. So here is the result, I was pleasantly suprised by the dust visible around the Pleiades, contrasting with the blue reflection nebula.

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RA (center)	03h46m17s.97
RA (top/left)	03h56m16s.14
RA (top/right)	03h41m30s.50
RA (bottom/right)	03h36m20s.97
RA (bottom/left)	03h50m55s.59

Dec (center)	+24°09′30″.1
Dec (top/left)	+24°19′43″.3
Dec (top/right)	+26°10′03″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°56′50″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+22°08′27″.10

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