The never boring Pleiades (astropical)

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Perhaps thin clouds obstructed the view but I was hoping to unveil some more nebulosity with 2 hours integration and 120 second exposures though the moderate look-and-feel is pleasing. As expected, the noise level is much lower as compared with my previous Pleiades images with shorter integration. Though no calibration frames applied, noise treatment wasn't necessary.

Starnet++ resulted in too strong halos around the bright stars in that I dropped the starless layer and employed a luminosity layer in Photoshop to keep the stars as small as possible while stretching and tweaking the layers back and forth (that's what you are doing if you don't know what your are doing). Perhaps I did too much Lunar work this year in that I forgot how to process DSOs in Photoshop. Also, focus wasn't that precise.

It was an evening with unusual 28°C/84%RH. Either clouds or mossies or clouds of mossies ended the often interupted blood donation session.

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Description: A bit more stretching and less intense color. Thank you all for the heads-up!

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RA (center)	03h47m06s.47
RA (top/left)	03h53m43s.85
RA (top/right)	03h41m01s.71
RA (bottom/right)	03h40m33s.19
RA (bottom/left)	03h53m06s.20

Dec (center)	+24°07′37″.2
Dec (top/left)	+24°47′01″.2
Dec (top/right)	+25°01′03″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°27′08″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+23°13′16″.4

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