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  ·  Maia  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Pleione  ·  Sterope II  ·  Taygeta  ·  The star 18Tau  ·  And 8 more.
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Pleiades Open Cluster, stricnine

Pleiades Open Cluster

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Pleiades Open Cluster, stricnine

Pleiades Open Cluster

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Description

The Pleiades open cluster (M45) is moving through a dusty region of space. The bright blue stars cause the blue reflection nebula.

I like keeping the faint dusty detail, well, faint. There are hints that it's there, and I think the overall image looks best that way.

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Description: All new processing mainly aimed to keep the size of the main stars of the cluster under control, and for color.

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Pleiades Open Cluster, stricnine