Barnard's Merope IC349, inside Merope NGC1435 in the Pleiades

Copyright: SantiRoHe

Date image was taken: January 12, 2024

Location: Torroja del Priorat (Tarragona, Spain)

Image Description and Details: It is quite a challenge for amateur to obtain Barnard's Merope Nebula as it is a very small object and very close to the star Merope, only 36 arcminutes away.
For this amateur image, I got 99 shots of 180 seconds each (4h 57 minutes)
From a Sky Bortle 4 with a theoretical resolution of 0.92 arc seconds per pixel.

Equipment Details: Esprit 120 at f7 (840 mm focal length)
Asi 2600MC with Optolong L-Pro filter

Name: Santiago Rodríguez Hernández

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