Maia Star Nebula: Location: Taurus Constellation

Maia is the eldest of the Seven Sisters that make up the Pleiades Star Cluster, M45. Maia is a young super hot blue giant star that's seen with the naked eye, even seen easily in bright cities.

Maia is the the fourth brightest star of the M45 star cluster and is around 6 times larger than Earth's main sequence star/Sun.

The feminine name, Maia, has several meanings depending on the culture. In Māori Culture, Maia means "Brave" and "Confident". In Greek Culture, Maia means "Mother" or "Nurse".

Acquisition & Astro Rig details:

Bortle 2, Elevation 2700 feet above sea level.

ZWO AM5N Mount, 200mm pier extension on Celestron AVX Stainless Steel Tripod

SVBONY MK105, F/13 1365mm FL, 105mm aperture

ZWO ASIAIR Plus

ZWO 120mm ZWO Guide Camera

ZWO ASI585MC Pro One Shot Colour 3840 x 2160 resolution with HCG enabled Gain at 200, Cooling Fan 10 degress F.

Integration time 60 seconds x 15 lights with Bias, Flats, Darks.

Straight UV/IR Cut

100ah Lithium Battery Cell to a 500watt Inverter that I assembled into a portable carrying tool box.

Processing:

Stacked ASISTUDIO

Siril Removed Green Noise

Siril Image Plate Solved

Siril Spectrophotometric Color Calibrated

Siril Deconvoluted + Cosmic Corrected

Siril Background extracted

Siril Starnet Removal

Cropped in Siril

Graxpert Denoised, background extracted and stretched 10%.

GIMP Light Curve tweaks and highlights reduced

Cropped again in Siril