Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  16 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  19 Tau)  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 Tau)  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  Alcyone  ·  Asterope  ·  Atlas  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  HD23061  ·  HD23156  ·  HD23157  ·  HD23158  ·  HD23194  ·  HD23246  ·  HD23247  ·  HD23325  ·  HD23326  ·  HD23361  ·  And 71 more.
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M45 - The Pleiades

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The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades--Messier 45. Only 442 light years away in the constellation Taurus, this gorgeous star cluster is easily visible with the naked eye, although the wispy clouds require some additional optics to discern.

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Description: More cloudy-night work with NXT and BXT on archival data.

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M45 - The Pleiades, Timothy Martin