M45 Pleiades in LRGB from a White Zone (Douglas J Struble)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: Maia nebula · Merope nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · The star 18Tau · The star Atlas (27Tau) · The star Celaeno (16Tau) · The star Electra (17Tau) · The star Merope (23Tau) · The star Pleione (28Tau) · The star Sterope I (21Tau) · The star Taygeta (19Tau) · The star ηTau

M45 Pleiades in LRGB from a White Zone, Douglas J Struble

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M45 Pleiades in LRGB from a White Zone

Typically I have a extremely difficult time capturing dark nebula in my heavily light polluted red zone. I tried my best to pull some out in the background of M45. I was hoping for more, but at least I got some.

Messier 45 (M45), also known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, is a bright open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus, the Bull.

The Pleiades cluster has an apparent magnitude of 1.6 and lies at an average distance of 444 light years from Earth. The cluster is also known as Melotte 22. It does not have an NGC designation.

Messier 45 contains a number of hot, blue, extremely luminous B-type stars and is one of the nearest star clusters to Earth. It is the easiest object of its kind to see without binoculars. M45 has a core radius of 8 light years and its tidal radius extends to about 43 light years. The cluster is home to more than 1,000 confirmed members, but only a handful of these stars are visible to the naked eye. The total mass of M45 is estimated at about 800 solar masses.

The stars in the Pleiades cluster have formed in the last 100 million years and they will stay gravitationally bound to each other for another 250 million years before the cluster disperses as a result of tidal interactions with other objects in the neighbourhood. By that point, the cluster will have moved from Taurus to Orion.

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