M45 - The Pleiades (Paul Puntin)

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M45 - The Pleiades

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I began this project in Feb 22 but ran out of time and weather. I added to the data in Feb 23 and had a few attempts at processing it over the year, on and off, but couldn't get something I was happy with. I think this is quite a difficult object to process, but I'm fairly happy with my latest attempt, so decided to publish it. I did think about adding more data with my new WO GT81, and I may well do, but the weather is not being kind and I'm having a few back focus issues with the 1x flatenner I've just bought (may end up putting the Flat6AIII back on).

I've also uploaded a more stretched version, to bring out the faint dust, but I think this may be just a step too far. Feel free to offer an opinion as to your preference!

CS Paul

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Astrometry.net job	9148118
PixInsight job	SR1HRADUBJA7JVVGZ9LTHW6BNDBWSWVL
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	03h47m29s.71
RA (top/left)	03h44m03s.12
RA (top/right)	03h43m43s.21
RA (bottom/right)	03h50m52s.35
RA (bottom/left)	03h51m20s.96

Dec (center)	+24°06′12″.5
Dec (top/left)	+25°24′19″.8
Dec (top/right)	+22°51′20″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+22°47′48″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+25°20′45″.2

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