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 18 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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M45 Pleiades from CSP, Shannon Calvert
M45 Pleiades from CSP
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M45 Pleiades from CSP

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M45 Pleiades from CSP, Shannon Calvert
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M45 Pleiades from CSP

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This Ode to Sturdy Mounts was taken on an extremely windy night at the 2022 Connecticut Star party. While a few neighboring telescopes were literally blowning over, my Celestron CGEM II kept a Takahashi FSQ-106N smoothly autoguiding with very few lost frames. While the subs were limited to 75 seconds, I still got a decent image on a night that others found hopeless.

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M45 Pleiades from CSP, Shannon Calvert