Darkness and Light

I love the juxtaposition of the dark nebulosity in Taurus with the bright Pleiades. Once I figured out mosaics, I knew this would be my second after Orion.

 

This is a mosaic of 5 different panels taken on two nights, Oct. 2, 2019 and November 20, 2020, 188 x 1 minutes of imagery. All subs were taken with my Fuji X-T10 and Samyang 135 mm on the iOptron SkyTracker Pro. Each sub is 60 seconds, taken at ISO 1600 with the Samyang 135mm open to f2.

 

I used the same process as that of my previous mosaic of Orion: I integrated individual panels using DeepSkyStacker, and used the 'remove light pollution' tool of Astro Pixel Processor to flatten integrations, which had substantial vignetting from being shot at f2. These flattened panels were then mosaiced with Astro Pixel Processor using the process outlined here: www.astropixelprocessor.com/part-3-register-normalize-int.... Curves adjustment, star reduction, and color tweaking were then done with GIMP. This image is downscaled to 70% of the original mosaic.

Done