Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  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
The Pleiades (M45), Josh Woodward
The Pleiades (M45)
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The Pleiades (M45)

The Pleiades (M45), Josh Woodward
The Pleiades (M45)
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The Pleiades (M45)

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This was one of my more complicated captures and processes. It is an LRGB HDR image composed of 88x60s Lum, 60x5s lum, 30x180s RGB, and 30x10s RGB. The processing alone took 12 hours😖. I was hoping to do a masked stretch but I got weir ringing artifacts on the HDR images.

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The Pleiades (M45), Josh Woodward

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