Pleiades Messier 45 (astropical)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 16 Tau · 17 Tau · 18 Tau · 19 Tau) · 19 q Tau · 20 Tau · 21 Tau · 22 Tau · 23 Tau · 24 Tau · 25 Tau) · 25 eta Tau · 26 Tau · 27 Tau · 28 Tau · Alcyone · Asterope · Atlas · Barnard's Merope Nebula · Celaeno · Electra · IC 349 · IC 353 · M 45 · Maia · Maia Nebula · Merope · Merope Nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · And 15 more.

Powered byPixInsight

Pleiades Messier 45

Powered byPixInsight

Pleiades Messier 45

This is a warm-up picture while waiting for the rise of Orion's belt. To my surprise this picture is probably the best in my infant star cluster nursery. Never thought I could ever capture the brown dust around the cluster. It is still coarse, but can improve with longer integration.
The sky was humid and a little hazy but thanks to the fast Samyang lens stopped down to f/2.4 with a step-down ring I could collect more light than anticipated. Flats were a must due to heavy vignetting although the lens wasn't fogged by the high humidity, nor otherwise contaminated or obstructed. Hmmm...
A filter blocking artificial light and infrared is crucial as the bright stars in the field would blow up way too much. Even better would be a narrow band filter. This time I got away with a gentle star reduction in Siril.

Final
Original
B
C
D

B

Title: Annotated

Uploaded: ...

C

Title: Session Summary

Uploaded: ...

D

Title: Perseus

Description: Perseus, taken in parallel with a 35mm lens stopped at f3.3 on a Nikon D5500. 76 x 60 sec at ISO1600.

Uploaded: ...

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8902480
PixInsight job	THBPDKEORUHH5V6DCJP5B0OLE77J94K3
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	03h46m58s.32
RA (top/left)	03h47m12s.25
RA (top/right)	03h57m15s.45
RA (bottom/right)	03h46m43s.67
RA (bottom/left)	03h36m55s.27

Dec (center)	+24°05′51″.9
Dec (top/left)	+21°20′56″.0
Dec (top/right)	+25°32′54″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+26°50′42″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+22°36′16″.4

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Pleiades Messier 45

Pleiades Messier 45

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

C

D

Sky plot

Histogram

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Pleiades Messier 45

Pleiades Messier 45

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

C

D

Sky plot

Histogram

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

Delete this revision?

Delete this revision?

Delete this revision?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information