M45 - The Pleiades open star cluster and surrounding nebulosity (Danny Lee)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 19 Tau) · 25 Tau) · Barnard's Merope Nebula · IC 349 · IC 354 · Maia Nebula · Merope Nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · Sterope I (21 Tau) · The star 18 Tau · The star 32 Tau · The star Alcyone (η Tau · The star Asterope · The star Atlas (27 Tau) · The star Celaeno (16 Tau) · The star Electra (17 Tau) · The star Merope (23 Tau) · The star Pleione (28 Tau) · The star Taygeta (q Tau

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M45 - The Pleiades open star cluster and surrounding nebulosity

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The Pleiades has in the past been a bit of a nemesis of mine.

Each time I've tried to image M45 I've had a random issue. The camera sensor fogging up, running out of suitable imaging time and our usual friend the moon crashing the party to name a few.

This year I managed to grab a decent amount of data through the narrow gaps in cloud cover we've experienced this November/December.

I love finding hidden surprises in images and so recently I've been paying more attention to what else might be hiding out there. This area turned up a few of what look like tiny, far off galaxies hiding behind the dust around M45. I think I've confirmed a few of them from their catalogue numbers in the Principal Galaxies Catalogue. Although I think there may be a few more hidden off in the distance. I guess the more advanced annotation/platesolve on AstroBin might identify them but it's fun hunting for them.

Here are a few close up crops (top to bottom: PGC 13696, PGC 13992, PGC 13557)

As always thanks for looking and wishing you all clear skies for the year to come.

Danny

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