Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  11 Tau  ·  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  ·  IC 354  ·  Maia  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Pleione  ·  Sterope II  ·  And 10 more.
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M45 and Venus, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)
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M45 and Venus

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M45 and Venus, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)
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M45 and Venus

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It's not very often that a bright planet moves so close to a bright and well known star cluster like M45. This was the result of 30 x 1 second exposures stacked, taken with a Sony A7iii and a Sony 100-400 GM zoom lens with 1.4X extender on a heavy tripod. Processing with Deepsky Stacker, Pixinsight, and Photoshop.

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M45 and Venus, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)