The Pleiades M45 (The Pleiades M45) (starpixels)

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The Pleiades M45 (The Pleiades M45)

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The Pleiades M45 (The Pleiades M45)

M45 has been a personal favorite to capture as well as research. The star lore of the Pleiades is among the most extensive of any object in the night sky. Over the ages, the metaphors have run from diamonds, to a swarm of fireflies or bees, to shining drops of dew. Various cultures have seen in them camels, pigeons, dancers, hens, pigs and so on… there is also the unsolved mystery of where science might overlap with myth to explain the ‘Lost Pleiad.’

The Pleiades is truly stunning through binoculars and now I know that it's a thrill to stretch that first stack of images too. All those vibrant blues and striations of gas & dust….there are so many truly spectacular treatments of M45 on Astrobin and there is so much to learn by looking through them. At 9+hrs of integration I managed to bring out a few nice details and suppress some defects, etc, but I'm also getting anxious to upgrade to a mono camera. Besides cleaning up the processing, I focused on creating a balanced color palette that included both the vibrant blues and the more muted tones of the surrounding dust. After several attempts, I landed on a calibration that allows for a range of warm and cool hues, while still featuring the intense blue of the cluster.

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Massachusetts Astro

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9224439
PixInsight job	XRG0SP1O19GKCB3Y0HXL4XX3PELTY2B4
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	03h46m48s.14
RA (top/left)	03h52m19s.79
RA (top/right)	03h41m09s.92
RA (bottom/right)	03h41m20s.93
RA (bottom/left)	03h52m21s.80

Dec (center)	+24°07′42″.2
Dec (top/left)	+24°58′47″.10
Dec (top/right)	+24°56′38″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°15′46″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+23°17′56″.6

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