Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star 18Tau  ·  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
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M45, Pleiades, Russ Rybicki

M45, Pleiades

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M45, Pleiades, Russ Rybicki

M45, Pleiades

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M45, The Pleiades. AstroBin only has 63 pages of M45 images. That is not nearly enough, so here is my contribution.

First light with my William Optics Z61 + Flat61A. Unmodified D5500 on a Fornax Lighttrack II.

30 lights @ 120s, 6 darks (I know, I am bad), 30 flats, bias.

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M45, Pleiades, Russ Rybicki