M45 (Pleiades)

 Posted: Oct 26th, 2025
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Telescope/Lens: Askar 107PHQ
Camera: QHY268M
Mount: ZWO AM5
Guide Scope: QHY OAG
Guide Camera: QHY568C
Software: Pixinsight, GraXpert, N.I.N.A
Accessories: askar 0.7x reducer
Yellow, Bortle 5 zone:
 Merjanovo Rostovskaya Oblast, Russia
 Oct 25th, 2025
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Updated version of last year's photo. Added signal. Now 240min in each RGB channel, subs 60 and 180sec.
Adding signal allowed to properly highlight the structure, plus processing without cranking up saturation.

Discussion, criticism, questions - in the astrochat https://t.me/dalniycosmos_chat , there are many of us there, special welcome to haters)
Updated
  5 Dec, 2025
  10 h 27 m
A new version of the latest Pleiades image. As with the Tulip Nebula, I boosted the colorfulness and brightness a bit—somehow everyone seems to like it more tha…
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  26 Oct, 2025
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Updated version of last year's photo. Added signal. Now 240min in each RGB channel, subs 60 and 180sec. Adding signal allowed to properly highlight the structur…
  2 May, 2025
  5 h 30 m
Taken over 4 nights, subs of 60 sec, HGM 2CMS Processing in PixInsight and GraXpert, without paid neural network plugins. Discussion in the astrochat - https://…
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It turned out really great!
26 Oct, 2025 Reply
And the structure came out better and the stars are neater.
27 Oct, 2025 Reply

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