Messier 45 - Pleiades (Michel Makhlouta)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 11 Tau · 12.45 · 16 Tau · 17 Tau · 177 Irma · 18 Tau · 19 q Tau · 20 Tau · 21 Tau · 22 Tau · 23 Tau · 24 Tau · 25 eta Tau · 26 Tau · 27 Tau · 28 Tau · 32 Tau · 33 Tau · Alcyone · Asterope · Atlas · Barnard's Merope Nebula · Celaeno · Electra · IC 341 · IC 349 · IC 353 · IC 354 · M 45 · Maia · And 19 more.

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Here's another image from the portable rig, it's a pleasure to carry around, with zero planning involved. I just wish they come up with portable batteries already. This was taken from a Bortle 4 area, using the lens at F/2.8, over the course of two nights.

I am still looking for a name for this rig, leaning towards the minimum effort rig, just point and shoot, relatively speaking. The OSC doesn't require filter planning, and leaving a filter to a second night where it gets cloudy and you end up without an image. Scheduling works, with platesolving, and guiding/dither. And during both nights, it held focus better than my apo (doesn't make sense though).

Previous generations have some tales about Pleiades, or as locally called Thuraya. There are some old stories where Pleiades is used to predict the weather at the beginning of winter.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue and luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. What's more interesting, is that the reflection nebulae around the brightest stars were once thought to be left over material from the formation of the cluster, but are now considered likely to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium through which the stars are currently passing. (Source Wikipedia)

Samyang 135 f/2
ASI533MC Pro
The OSC Club (One Shot Camera)

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RA (center)	03h46m54s.53
RA (top/left)	03h34m06s.67
RA (top/right)	03h39m02s.15
RA (bottom/right)	03h59m20s.34
RA (bottom/left)	03h55m08s.25

Dec (center)	+24°06′39″.5
Dec (top/left)	+25°54′47″.4
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Dec (bottom/right)	+22°14′35″.4
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