Taurus Molecular Cloud - Just a small part (Alan Brunelle)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 52 Tau) · 52 phi Tau · B10 · B211 · B213 · B214 · B216 · B217 · B218 · B7 · LBN 782 · LBN 785 · LBN 788 · LBN 793 · LDN 1495 · NGC 1539 · PGC 138729 · PGC 14986 · PGC 15282 · PGC 165392 · PGC 165395 · PGC 1803566 · PGC 1818187 · PGC 1821072 · PGC 1821844 · PGC 1836911 · PGC 1842496 · PGC 1849767 · PGC 1849884 · PGC 1851106 · And 13 more.

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A target of opportunity for me. A rare opportunity. Had the 61mm set up and nothing else to use, so I shot this area. I certainly want to get this area more completely covered and intend to use the 135mm Rokinon when the skies clear.

This image seemed a bit of struggle with noise. Not the fine noise that NXT deals with easily, but the high order noise that makes some of the smoother areas look like orange skin. I hate that. I will assume that I really need to get much more time to improve things.

This region found near the crossover between Taurus and Perseus is filled with relatively close-by molecular clouds. Very extensive, varied and scattered with weak emission and some rather dramatic reflection nebulae, of which I favor. This area of molecular clouds is a well known region of star formation that appears to turn out sun-like stars rather than the beasts that seem to be found in the more popular emission nebulae. For this reason, and that fact that it is well situated in the north is one reason for my interest. If I ever get the photometry setup going, this will be loaded with many targets to explore further.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	8973755
PixInsight job	CYNO8S28M26J6NQS5IQ7OUWRGXNHZWQD
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	04h23m35s.40
RA (top/left)	04h33m08s.66
RA (top/right)	04h21m45s.20
RA (bottom/right)	04h13m57s.91
RA (bottom/left)	04h25m21s.92

Dec (center)	+27°27′14″.8
Dec (top/left)	+26°59′00″.6
Dec (top/right)	+29°35′28″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+27°53′07″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+25°19′00″.4

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