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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(Honest) Venus close to the Pleiades, April 2nd, 2020, Michael von Berner-Purgstall
(Honest) Venus close to the Pleiades, April 2nd, 2020
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(Honest) Venus close to the Pleiades, April 2nd, 2020

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(Honest) Venus close to the Pleiades, April 2nd, 2020, Michael von Berner-Purgstall
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(Honest) Venus close to the Pleiades, April 2nd, 2020

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Sorry, almost 100% overclouded on April 3rd, so "just" an image from April 2nd. I've learned from my test-session on April 1st and made far shorter exposures to hold the brightness of Venus a bit more back.

Don't get fooled by images showing Venus besides the Pleiades with bright, blue reflection nebula parts and even lots of dust surrounding it, all those images are "fake", say a collage of at least two different images.

All I did was using a mask over Venus during first stretch, which I removed for the second stretch, so I is not overwhelming the whole image.

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(Honest) Venus close to the Pleiades, April 2nd, 2020, Michael von Berner-Purgstall