The Pleiades

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Here's an image of the Pleiades I took earlier this year with my 200mm Takumar lens:

I've picked up an arc of extended reflection nebulosity to the left with some brown dust to the right. Looking at it I'm wondering quite how far the cluster extends.

It's about an hour of 2 minute subs at f5.6. A front aperture mask might be good for this target as some of the structure in the nebulosity is being hidden by the diffraction pattern.

Any thoughts on the processing would be welcome.

Edit:- Sorry, wrong forum. Could a mod move it to the Deep Sky Imaging section please?

[kalasinman]

Nice and sharp, but color seems shifted to red.

[xtreemchaos]

Outstanding mate,thanks for sharing.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice stretch of reflection nebula and dust there. Well captured

[slim80]

Beautiful shot.Great work

[swamp thing]

Moved for you. 

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Thanks all.

Nice and sharp, but color seems shifted to red.

Thanks. Looking at it on this monitor the star colours look a bit off, I'm going to have to have another go at this.

Moved for you. 

Cheers.