Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  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  ·  LBN 770  ·  LBN 771  ·  LBN 772  ·  LBN 773  ·  M 45  ·  Maia  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  And 14 more.
M 45 (The Pleiades) - 2021, James Markgraf
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M 45 (The Pleiades) - 2021

M 45 (The Pleiades) - 2021, James Markgraf
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M 45 (The Pleiades) - 2021

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The Pleiades, also known as The Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. It is approximately 444.2 light years from Earth and has a radius of approximately 17.5 light years.

This is just the beginning. I plan on revisiting this target a few more times to get more data and see what I can pull out of it. These relatively short exposures gave a decent amount of detail but I want to try at different exposure lengths to see how much more I can get.

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M 45 (The Pleiades) - 2021, James Markgraf