Venus and the Pleiades (M45) (Eshan Toorabally)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: -4.57 · 13.37 · 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 · 32 Tau · 33 Tau · 94 Aurora · Asterope · Atlas · Barnard's Merope Nebula · Celaeno · Electra · IC 349 · IC 353 · IC 354 · Maia · Maia Nebula · Merope · Merope Nebula · And 16 more.

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Venus and the Pleiades (M45)

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A bit of fun here - walking home after work in recent weeks (before the lockdown here in the U.K.), I marvelled at the beautiful bright Venus high in the Western sky at dusk....so when I learnt it was approaching M45, I thought I need to capture this!

Unfortunately, the West is obscured by my house, so I set up in an upstairs bedroom, with the Skyguider Pro roughly polar aligned (can't see Polaris through the walls!) and shooting into streetlights.

Venus is super bright of course, but I am pretty happy with the result. I suffered severe field rotation, so had to cull a large number of subs and cropped out some strong reflection artifacts...but an interesting image for me and a challenge to capture and process!

Thanks for looking!

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RA (center)	03h52m17s.30
RA (top/left)	04h06m12s.58
RA (top/right)	03h48m38s.66
RA (bottom/right)	03h38m26s.25
RA (bottom/left)	03h55m44s.86

Dec (center)	+24°16′08″.10
Dec (top/left)	+24°44′55″.6
Dec (top/right)	+27°22′12″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°42′29″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°09′55″.2

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