Nebulae
The nebulosity of Merope in M45

This is a close-up image of some of the stars in the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters star cluster. The brightest star is Merope, or 23 Tauri, shining at magnitude 4.17 and around 400 lightyears distant. This is a blue-white subgiant star, it's radiation reflecting off the nebula through which the Pleiads are passing.
The cluster itself is young at approximately 100 million years.

This image is the result of 1.5h of data capture, over three evenings in December 2019 and January 2020.

ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through an 8-inch Ritchey-Chretien reflector, using a Hutech IDAS-LPS-D2 filter.

Date: 15/01/2020

Photographer: Graham Wilcock

The nebulosity of Merope in M45

This is a close-up image of some of the stars in the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters star cluster. The brightest star is Merope, or 23 Tauri, shining at magnitude 4.17 and around 400 lightyears distant. This is a blue-white subgiant star, it's radiation reflecting off the nebula through which the Pleiads are passing.
The cluster itself is young at approximately 100 million years.

This image is the result of 1.5h of data capture, over three evenings in December 2019 and January 2020.

ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through an 8-inch Ritchey-Chretien reflector, using a Hutech IDAS-LPS-D2 filter.

Date: 15/01/2020

Photographer: Graham Wilcock