M45 The Pleiades cluster redux

Today I ran my raw sub frames of M45 The Pleiades cluster through the new processing workflow. These were images taken on April 2, 2019. I believe there are more of the nebula wisps showing up in the final product.

M45 The Pleiades cluster taken April 2, 2019 reprocessed December 17, 2019. Electra is on the right side of the cluster.

After seeing other astronomers’ images of M45, I picked up on mention of a far away galaxy in the picture near the star Electra. The Pleiades is about 444.2 light years from Earth, however the galaxy PGC 13696, a magnitude 17.3 galaxy is approximately 1.4 billion light years away! I can definitely say that is the furthest distance object I’ve captured.

Galaxy PGC 13696: Magnitude 17.3 and 1.4 billion light years from Earth