Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  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
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M45 -The Pleiades, Tim Lewis
M45 -The Pleiades
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M45 -The Pleiades

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M45 -The Pleiades, Tim Lewis
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M45 -The Pleiades

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This is M45, The Plieades cluster. It was shot as a test image using my (in 2012) new Stellarvue SVS102ED2 refractor. It was captured using a modified Canon 350D camera. Calibration, integration, stretch, and deconvolution were performed in Maxim DL; LRGB combine, noise reduction, and color saturation were performed in Pixinsight.

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M45 -The Pleiades, Tim Lewis