Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  16 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  Alcyone  ·  Asterope  ·  Atlas  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  IC 349  ·  M 45  ·  Maia  ·  Maia nebula  ·  Merope  ·  Merope nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Pleione  ·  Sterope II  ·  Taygeta  ·  The star 18Tau  ·  And 8 more.
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M45 Pleiades, Jeff Coldrey
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M45 Pleiades

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M45 Pleiades

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I have always struggled a bit when imaging the Pleiades, partly due to it's low transit altitude from Melbourne (~29 degrees), but also due to my failure to create good quality masks during processing.

This is my best attempt to date, using data captured over 2 nights. Hope to get some more data over the Xmas period to tease out some of the surrounding brown dust.

Clear Skies!

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M45 Pleiades, Jeff Coldrey