My image of this nice region of our Night Sky. You can see the Hyades, with the bright yellow Aldebaran (alpha Tauri), the Pleiades, or M45, a beautiful open cluster with nebulosity. A portion of the constellation Taurus, or the Bull is visible. On the left side of the image, a red nebulosity region can be seen, it is the faint California Nebula, or NGC 1499. This nebula is much better captured with a modified DSLR or CCD, but IMO I captured a nice amount of nebulosity with a stock T4i.

** The unusual object seen in this image makes it an unique field of view. Above Pleiades you can see a wisp of what looks like nebulosity, like a stream jet/river that flows to M45. This is actually, the faint tail of the Comet C/2014 Q2 - Lovejoy. Please se the -B- revision.

This image was captured in a beautiful night on a relatively dark location. However, to my eyes, the sky looked brighter than average, and instead of almost black, it was in a shade of dark blue. The conclusion that we arrived, is that, as it was a long period without raining, the atmosphere had several dust particles, that reflected the light from the nearby cities. Has anyone ever experienced this phenomenon? If so, what do you think?

Taken from Rural Skies (Bortle 3-4), latitude 22ºS, from Cristina, MG, Brazil. Thanks for seeing.

Camera: Unmodded T4i/650D at ISO 800

Lens: Canon 40mm f/2.8 STM, stopped down to f/4.0

Exposure Detail: 10x300s; or 10x5 minutes; total 50 minutes.

*The -B- version of this image is based on the -Original- verision. However, strong Star Shrinking was applied, and the image was further stretched (to my mind, overprocessed) to show Lovejoy's tail better.*

*The -C- and -D- versions were color corrected, and look better in my opinion. Version -C- was a little overprocessed/kind of starless in my opinion, but in this site it actually looks better. I think that Astrobin degrades image sharpness a bit, and this version is nice here*