A Fun and Educational Collaboration (Steve Lantz)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 16 Tau · 17 Tau · 19 q Tau · 20 Tau · 21 Tau · 22 Tau · 23 Tau · 24 Tau · 25 eta Tau · 26 Tau · 27 Tau · 28 Tau · Alcyone · Asterope · Atlas · Barnard's Merope Nebula · Celaeno · Electra · IC 349 · M 45 · Maia · Maia Nebula · Merope · NGC 1432 · Pleiades · Pleione · Sterope II · Taygeta · The star Atlas (27Tau) · The star Celaeno (16Tau) · And 6 more.

A Fun and Educational Collaboration

Van McComas and I have been cooperating of late -- he is teaching me (skillfully) about how to use Star Tools and I am teaching him (he'll have to weigh in on whether or not it is skillfully LOL) how to use Photoshop. We recently worked on the same target, M45. We've both posted images of the Pleiades on our pages, but for fun, I wanted to show you all other results of the collaboration. The details of acquisition are very similar to our other posted images of M45. What is important is that my image was processed entirely with Star Tools 1.6 and Van's was a hybrid of both Star Tools and Photoshop. Thanks to Van's great instructions, my Star Tools image came out very similar to my Photoshop image I posted separately. Van's image is a closeup that shows a view of the Pleiades' reflection nebulosity. As far as I am concerned, what we've learned is that both Star Tools and Photoshop are useful in their own ways and, as we all know, are very good image processing platforms. Since I'm not too swift with labeling revisions and finals, I just left it at my image is the original and Van's is the final.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	4026833
PixInsight job	HI58RUE96VTXK3LZBU84E5N3ZNRB85JW
PixInsight queue size	n/a
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RA (center)	03h47m04s.17
RA (top/left)	03h43m50s.95
RA (top/right)	03h49m29s.86
RA (bottom/right)	03h50m17s.59
RA (bottom/left)	03h44m37s.16

Dec (center)	+24°07′57″.2
Dec (top/left)	+23°56′03″.8
Dec (top/right)	+23°36′46″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+24°19′24″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+24°38′57″.6

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