Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star 18Tau  ·  The star Atlas (27Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28Tau)  ·  The star Sterope I (21Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (19Tau)  ·  The star ηTau
Pleiades, ptighe
Pleiades
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Pleiades

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Pleiades

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First object using new (to me) SVX80T-3SV. Began imaging right at dusk, by ~11pm M45 had set. Used Nikon D850 at iso400. Exposure times attempted included 30s x60, 60s x30, and 120s x4 (before setting). This attempt only includes the 30s x60; others had some bad sky glow (neighbor's lights on and off through night). I did try stacking the Masters for each separate time using HDR and simple integration, but seemed to be going in the wrong direction so stuck with the 30s series. Processing in PixInsight used the new WBB as well as the EZsuite of scripts. Also first attempts at dedicated MLT sharpening and denoising. Still more noise in the lighter clouds than I would like.

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Description: Slight revision to color saturation curves

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Pleiades, ptighe