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The Goddess of Beauty and Love hangs with The Seven Sisters, SparkyHT

The Goddess of Beauty and Love hangs with The Seven Sisters

The Goddess of Beauty and Love hangs with The Seven Sisters, SparkyHT

The Goddess of Beauty and Love hangs with The Seven Sisters

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Description

This is a blended image consisting of data I took of M45 from my Bortle 8/9 skies awhile back, and images I took on 4/4 of Venus mingling with the Seven Sisters. I used a homemade mask to stop down the ED80 to make Venus look better than a blown out misshapen blob, it gave me nice diffraction spikes too!

M45 Details:

Captured 01/01/2020, 231x60s, 3.9 hours

Scope: William Optics GT81 with FLAT6AIII .8x Flattener/Reducer

Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro

Mount: Rainbow Astro RST135

Filter: Optolong L-eNhance LP filter

Venus/M45 Details:

Captured 04/04/2020, 20x10s

Scope: Skywatcher Esprit 80ED Pro with Starizona APEX-S .65x reducer

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro

Mount: Rainbow Astro RST135

Filter: Optolong L-Pro

Pre and post processing in Pixinsight. Separate images aligned with StarAlignment. GAME script was awesome in making the required masks. Blended the long exposure image of M45 with the Venus/M45 image stack using Pixelmath.

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