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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Pleiades, Alan Howell
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Pleiades, Alan Howell

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The Pleiades star cluster. This is 444 light-years from my backyard.
This image had 5hrs and 45 minutes of exposure time, from 348 single exposures stacked together to bring out more detail. Taken with my Astro-Tech 72EDII 430mm doublet refractor, Sky Watcher Star Adventuer tracker, and a Canon 77D camera.

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Pleiades, Alan Howell