Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  19 Tau)  ·  25 Tau)  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Sterope I (21 Tau)  ·  The star 18 Tau  ·  The star Alcyone (η Tau  ·  The star Asterope  ·  The star Atlas (27 Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16 Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17 Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23 Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28 Tau)  ·  The star Sterope II (22 Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (q Tau
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Pleiades, Michael Vincent
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Pleiades

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Pleiades

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Description

I had a very short window in between total cloud cover during a recent trip. Even so, four hours of integration was enough under the rural Texas sky.

===Capture===
170 L at 60s
20 R at 60s
20 G at 60s
20 B at 60s
Bortle 4 zone

===Color===
Channel combination
SPCC
Arcsinhstretch

===Luminance===
BlurXTerminator
Arcsinhstretch
Linearfit to RGB

===LRGB===
Apply Lum to RGB with LRGBCombination
Take up blackpoint gap with HistogramTransformation
StarXTerminator
Starless
  Contast and color curves
  UnsharpMask
  NoiseXTerminator, mask nebula with extracted Lum range
Combine starless + stars; blend method: ~((~starless)*(~stars))
Crop

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Pleiades, Michael Vincent