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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Pleidades revisited, Lodewijk van Pol
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Pleidades revisited

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Pleidades revisited

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After two months of rain, clouds, rain, clouds and rain again (sometimes intercepted by thunderstorm and showers) finally a brief window of clear skies.
I managed to shoot 8 x 180s usable light frames,  for a dazzling total exposure time of 24 minutes. Then I had to rush back in again, no time for dark frames. I used the 0,7 reducer, but this time no filter at all. And indeed hardly any halos around the bright stars in this image.

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Pleidades revisited, Lodewijk van Pol