The Makalii Cluster / M45 in LRGB (Brent Newton)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: Maia nebula · Merope nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · The star 18Tau · The star Atlas (27Tau) · The star Celaeno (16Tau) · The star Electra (17Tau) · The star Merope (23Tau) · The star Pleione (28Tau) · The star Sterope I (21Tau) · The star Taygeta (19Tau) · The star ηTau

The Makalii Cluster / M45 in LRGB, Brent Newton

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The Makalii Cluster / M45 in LRGB

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The Makalii Cluster / M45 in LRGB

Link: https://www.astronewton.com/the-pleiades

This cluster has many names since it appears to both hemispheres and is mentioned in Japanese, Greek, Native American, Hebrew, and Polynesian traditions (among many others) which I think makes it one of the more special objects in our sky. Learning more about this nebula and its history was just as interesting as processing the nebula itself - for example, I did not know that the nebula which presumably formed these stars had already been dispersed. Apparently this cluster just happens to be moving through a particularly dusty region of our galaxy.

Calibrations

- BPP with Master Dark, Flats

- Cosmic Correction

- Subframe Weighing

- Star Alignment, Local Normalization

- 2x Drizzle Integration

Pre-Processing:

- Crop

- DBE

- RGB Linear Fit to G, RGB Channel Combine

Post:

- Decon for L

- TGVD, MMT for L, RGB (Rista Method)

- HSV Repair & SCNR for RGB

Non-Linear:

- ASH + HT for RGB

- Masked Stretch, STF-HT for L (blended together with a mask)

- LRGB Combination

- Several passes of Curves for contrast and color tweaks

- Color Saturation to increase Blues, slightly desaturate yellow stars

- Unsharp Mask for nebula detail

Central USA

ASI1600MM-P 350mm FL
DSO

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