Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  19 Tau)  ·  25 Tau)  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star Alcyone (η Tau  ·  The star Celaeno (16 Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17 Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23 Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (q Tau
M45 Pleiades, Kathy Walker
M45 Pleiades
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M45 Pleiades

M45 Pleiades, Kathy Walker
M45 Pleiades
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M45 Pleiades

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Here is an old favourite, the Pleiades. It is mostly a test of my newly-cleaned mirror. I think I need to tweak the collimation a tad, but there is a lot more detail than in the version I attempted earlier in the week with a dirty mirror. I would have gotten more of the 300s luminance frames, but I was shooting late in the night to avoid moonlight and ran out of time before dawn.

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Description: Reprocessed, using BlurXTerminator, and some extra Luminance frames. I turned the saturation down a bit, too.

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M45 Pleiades, Kathy Walker