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M45 - The Pleiades, Ivan
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M45 - The Pleiades

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Learning how to do LRGB and played around with this a bunch. I'm happy with it for now, but may gather more data and re-do the color correction once I setup the new SPCC tool in PixInsight.

I think I could have reduced the overall glow and focused more on bringing out the whisps somehow (in part by reducing glow and focusing on highlights?).
I would have liked to have not mangled the star colours so much in the curves tool. I think they got a little too blown out and bloaty.
I think I had removed most of the excess glow and blown out stars in the RGB layer, but when adding the Luminance it undid the good, so I think I need to work at reducing the brightness of that image before combining.
I definitely pushed hard on the blue, but I kind of like it. Perhaps next time I'll get more blue on the whisps and less on the surroundings light glow if possible.

I collected this data over 2 nights with very little moonlight.

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M45 - The Pleiades, Ivan