Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  19 Tau)  ·  25 Tau)  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Sterope I (21 Tau)  ·  The star 18 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 Sterope II (22 Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (q Tau
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The Pleiades, Richard S. Wright Jr.
The Pleiades
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The Pleiades star cluster (M45). I took this image on a weekend desert imaging trip to GMARS near the Yucca Valley in California. It was one of my best imaging trips ever with three nights of perfect weather and very nice dark skies. The Riverside Astronomical Society was my host, and it was a wonderful trip. This was my favorite image of the whole trip, and I was quite happy with the nebulosity, and the reddish dusty region trailing off to one side (not a gradient artifact).

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The Pleiades, Richard S. Wright Jr.