Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  12.58  ·  16 Tau  ·  164 Eva  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 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  ·  HD22627  ·  HD22992  ·  HD23061  ·  HD23155  ·  HD23156  ·  HD23157  ·  HD23158  ·  And 132 more.
Pleiades in Cosmic Dust, Rikesh Patel
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Pleiades in Cosmic Dust

Pleiades in Cosmic Dust, Rikesh Patel
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Pleiades in Cosmic Dust

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There are several ways of determining what is real. Most often, we use our senses – seeing is believing after all! We can use special instruments to extend those senses, which helps to reveal the true nature of reality when our senses in their natural form aren’t enough. When photographing space, telescopes extend our visual reach and modern camera equipment can magnify sensitivity. Using these instruments in combination allows us to photograph distant, faint space objects with clarity that our eyes alone just cannot manage.This area of space, to unaided vision appears (to me anyway) as a diffuse smudge in an otherwise black sky. Binoculars reveal that this smudge is in fact, a cluster of seven stars adjacent to many more faint stars (a bit like in the second photograph). Long exposure photography however, reveals the true, surprising nature of reality - a beautiful constellation of hot, blue stars illuminating ubiquitous interstellar dust in the foreground. Space, in this region within our galaxy is not an empty black void, it is anything but.I shot this photograph on 20th January 2023 from my home in Bortle 6 skies (North West England). The image was shot using LRGB filters and is therefore presented in true colour. Full details below Equipment:- Skywatcher EQ6-R pro- AKSAR FRA400 with 0.7x reducer (f3.9)- ZWO 32mm f4 guidescope + ASI 120MM-mini- ZWO ASI 294MM pro- ZWO EAF- Optolong 36mm LRGB filters- Pegasus Powerbox advance Acquisition:- Lights, LRGB 20 x 3 minutes each filter (4 hours)- Darks: 30- Flats: 20 per filter- Darkflats: 20 per filter More on my instagram @paradoxctor

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Pleiades in Cosmic Dust, Rikesh Patel