Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  19 Tau)  ·  25 Tau)  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Sterope I (21 Tau)  ·  The star Alcyone (η Tau  ·  The star Asterope  ·  The star Atlas (27 Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16 Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17 Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23 Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28 Tau)  ·  The star Sterope II (22 Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (q Tau
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Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, Raúl Hussein
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Seven Sisters of the Pleiades

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Seven Sisters of the Pleiades

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This famous star cluster have been the subject of myths and legends in almost every culture on the planet. The Pleiades are amongst the first stars mentioned in literature, appearing in Chinese annals of about 2350BC. 

The seven sisters of Pleiades: Maia, Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Taygete, Electra, and Merope. Their parents were Atlas, a Titan commanded by the god Zeus to hold up the earth, and Pleione, the mythical protectress of sailors.

After a chance meeting with the hunter Orion, the Pleiades and their mother became the objects of his pursuit. To protect them from Orion’s relentless amorous advances, Zeus changed them into a flock of doves which he then set in the heavens. Zeus was also rumoured to have fathered children with three of the sisters.

The technique used to take this picture is the quick and simple One Shot Color (OSC) with a multiband filter. The secret of this image is the good sky of the mountains of León (Spain), taken in new moon and more 1000 meters altitude.

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Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, Raúl Hussein