The Hyades Star Cluster (Todd Stephens)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 48 Tau · 54 Tau) · 54 gam Tau · 55 Tau · 57 h Tau · 58 Tau · 60 Tau · 61 Tau) · 61 del Tau · 63 Tau · 64 Tau · 68 Tau · 70 Tau · 71 Tau · 73 pi. Tau · 74 Tau) · 74 eps Tau · 75 Tau · 76 Tau · 77 Tau) · 77 the01 Tau · 78 Tau) · 78 the02 Tau · 79 b Tau · 80 Tau · 81 Tau · 83 Tau · 84 Tau · 85 Tau · 86 Tau · And 45 more.

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The Hyades star cluster and surrounding dust, imaged over three different nights with my modded Canon 600D, Rokinon 135mm f/2 at f/2.4, and iExos-100 mount. The second session, my mount decided it did not want to dither, so there was a bit of walking noise injected from this session, but I think the overall result was better with the additional data versus omitting it.

The integration included 215 120-second guided subs across all three sessions, each calibrated with 30 darks, flat darks, and flats. Stacked/processed in APP, with star reduction via Starnet++, and final adjustments in GIMP.

I couldn't do much with the massive halo around Aldebaran, the Destroyer of Optics, and the walking noise left a bit of a mottled background.

Feedback and suggestions for improvement welcome and appreciated!

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RA (center)	04h28m19s.87
RA (top/left)	04h30m15s.89
RA (top/right)	04h06m25s.28
RA (bottom/right)	04h26m32s.79
RA (bottom/left)	04h50m44s.16

Dec (center)	+16°51′49″.1
Dec (top/left)	+22°28′31″.0
Dec (top/right)	+14°55′22″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+11°16′29″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+18°39′21″.3

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