At first this was supposed to be just a quick test after my main target, but I actually quite like how it looks so I decided to upload it.
Definitely my target with the lowest integration time now, but I suppose that's the beauty of bright targets.
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot blue luminous stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus, approximately 444 light-years away from us. It is the nearest Messier object to Earth, and is the most obvious cluster to the naked eye in the night sky.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
Reflection nebulae around the brightest stars were once thought to be left over material from their formation, but are now considered likely to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium through which the stars are currently passing.
The nine brightest stars of the cluster are named the Seven Sisters in Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone.
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