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Messier 45 The Pleiades, Roy Hagen
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Messier 45 The Pleiades

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Messier 45 The Pleiades, Roy Hagen
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Messier 45 The Pleiades

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Ok, been there, done that🤣, Well, not for three years 
So, these sixteen hours of data was collected during the last month and in fact the only sixteen hours of clear skies the last two months.
I did a lot more than nine nights of rapid setup and disappointed tear downs as the fog or clouds came in over my house s soon as I started the imaging process
Instead of many targets of short integration time, I found it easier to point the telescope at the same target every night and get on or two hours worth of data at the same target, and at the end, find out what details I could pull out of the collected photons.
The Triad filter is known to be less effective on reflection nebula and the surrounding nebulosity known as IFN, so I took the opportunity to test my Idas Nebulosity Booster filter for a couple of hours to bring  out more surrounding nebulosity.
Anyway, this is what I got out of the 16+ hrs.

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