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M45 - The Pleiades - The Seven Sisters, Watchmaker
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M45 - The Pleiades - The Seven Sisters

M45 - The Pleiades - The Seven Sisters, Watchmaker
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M45 - The Pleiades - The Seven Sisters

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Description

My latest rendition of reflection nebula M45.  This image is the result of four nights of data gathering in October 2022 - 10/23, 10/25, 10/29, and 10/30.
- A stack of the best 90% of 842 images.  Best via the quality score in Astro Pixel Processor
     - 392 90 second exposures
     - 448 60 second exposures
- Represents 15.38 Hrs of data gathering.  

Notes:
- Images acquired with a Asi2600 MC Pro camera @ zero gain for max dynamic range
- Processing - Processing took ~ 8.5 hours on a AMD Ryzen 9 5900 CPU with 64GB fast M2 Ram.  Required 1.55TB scratch disk space

Thanks for looking and  comments please

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M45 - The Pleiades - The Seven Sisters, Watchmaker