Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star Atlas (27Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28Tau)  ·  The star Sterope I (21Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (19Tau)  ·  The star ηTau
Pleiades with Orionid!, John
Pleiades with Orionid!
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Pleiades with Orionid!

Pleiades with Orionid!, John
Pleiades with Orionid!
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Pleiades with Orionid!

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My first ever long exposure of the Pleaides. I am very pleased with the outcome. My new camera and it's signal to noise ratio for ISO 3200 is going to bring so many other cosmic sights within my grasp, I know!

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Description: I intentionally took this on the night the Orionid Meteor Shower peaked with hopes I might catch some in my over an hour of imaging. When I stacked, though, I was disappointed not to see any. Then, I went back and looked at the individual subs, and there was one on one individual frame! I added it to the final image using a mask in Photoshop, and here it is! That is pretty exciting, if I do say so myself. If you zoom in, you can even see the telltale colors that show it is a meteor and not a satellite trail. It was just the beginning of it, though, as you can see by it starting to widen at the bottom. I wish I could have seen how bright it really got before fading.

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Pleiades with Orionid!, John