Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  11 Tau  ·  11.82  ·  12.26  ·  12.52  ·  13 Tau  ·  14 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  19 Tau)  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Themis  ·  25 Tau)  ·  26 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  32 Tau  ·  33 Tau  ·  36 Tau  ·  503 Evelyn  ·  66 Ari  ·  7 Tau  ·  70 Panopaea  ·  9 Tau  ·  Atlas  ·  B207  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Electra  ·  HD21049  ·  HD21774  ·  And 484 more.
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The Seven Sisters - Messier 45 - Pleiades (Wide Field), Jeff Kisslinger
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The Seven Sisters - Messier 45 - Pleiades (Wide Field)

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The Seven Sisters - Messier 45 - Pleiades (Wide Field), Jeff Kisslinger
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The Seven Sisters - Messier 45 - Pleiades (Wide Field)

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Well, I started imaging M45 with my newly acquired Samyang 135 lens on December 11th. I loved the wide field shots of this particular target as they typically showed the beautiful blue Seven Sisters in all their glory surrounded by the dark dust. I was especially interested in shotting M45 when I saw Elmiko post his version using the same lens (https://www.astrobin.com/t59u2s/). 
When I started out, my plan was to get around 20 hours of data in order to really bring out the dark dust from my Bortle 7 skies. After about 10 days of very moderate weather here in the Midwest, the clouds rolled in and the skies went gray. In the last 4-6 weeks, I've had a total of about 5 nights where the skies and seeing conditions were average to below average. I finally decided to throw in the towel and just go ahead and process what I had. I think it turned out OK in the end.

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