Tony Hallas captured this astonishing shot of the Pleiades in Taurus with his SVX102T. Otherwise known as M45, the Pleiades is an asterism of an open star cluster that sits 444 light-years away from Earth. The cluster is overrun by hot blue luminous stars that have formed in the last hundred million years. It is estimated by astronomers that the cluster will survive for another 250 million years before it is lost to gravitational interactions in the surrounding galactic neighborhood.

Other Designations: Seven Sisters, M45, Cr 42, Mel 22.

Details:

Telescope: SVX102T

Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Mount: Astro-Physics 900GTO

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Auriga Imaging Registrar, CCDWare CCDStack, Diffraction Limited Maxim DL.

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References:

Wikipedia contributors. (2024, December 7). Pleiades. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades

Salvatore Iovene - http://iovene.com/. (n.d.). M 45 The Pleiades. AstroBin. https://www.astrobin.com/fj1qmk/C/