M45 - (showing seven of the sisters) (Thomas)

M45 - (showing seven of the sisters)

Drizzle-stack of data that I forgot to process. Taken on Jan 10, February 28, March 2, March 5, 2022.
I needed to change the the ABE-parametrs in Pixinsight to prevent from generating a flat ring around the center of the image. I decreased the deviation under "Global Rejection" from default 0.8 to 0.05. This made this ring vanish.
If you have a very close look at the lower left border of the image you may find slight lines of different lightness. This is because I did the "plate solving" visually ("by eye") and of course have not been perfectly precise. :-) Please disregard it.
Processing: ABE - HT - Curves - HMT - Unsharp Mask -> Lightroom for color and final finetuning.
PI left me with a slight magenta cast on the left half of the image (probably ambient light or moonlight; no filters used) that I removed in Lightroom.

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Unknown

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