Seven Sisters in the Space Dust – Pleiades (M45)
Price range: $10.00 through $41.00
Description
The Pleiades – also known as the Seven Sisters – is one of the brightest and most beloved star clusters in the night sky. Just 444 light-years away, these hot, young blue stars are wrapped in delicate veils of cosmic dust that reflect their brilliant light, creating the famous electric-blue glow you see here.
This is my best Pleiades image yet: 36 hours 54 minutes of total integration (selected from nearly 50 hours collected) under my darker Bortle 4.5 skies in Williamsburg, Virginia. Using the SVBony SV550 80 mm triplet APO and ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, I was able to pull out every wisp of reflection nebulosity that’s usually invisible in shorter exposures.
This project was also a test run for my new WandererAstro camera angle rotator — I switched the framing between sessions to experiment with composition.
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