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  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  IC 349  ·  M 45  ·  Maia  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Pleiades  ·  Pleione  ·  Sterope II  ·  And 10 more.
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Pleiades (M45)

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Pleiades (M45)

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Open star cluster Pleiades (M45) and surrounding reflection nebulae imaged from Skopje city center under the moonlight. It contains around 1000 stars but 7 bright blue stars are easily recognizable with naked eye and are named after seven sisters from the Greek mythology (Electra, Taygeta, Alcyone, Maia, Sterope, Merope and Celaeno) and their parents Pleione and Atlas.

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