The star Celaeno (16 Tau)

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A steady mount and extremely clear skies gave me the conditions I was waiting for to test long (3-minute) exposures. This is just 7 of them. I purposefully increased the saturation to make this an almost celebatory looking skyscape.
M45 in 30 minutes at 50mm
A rare meeting of Mars and the Pleiades.
Mars and the Seven Sisters
My favorite signal of winter is the magical faint glow that glimmers in your peripheral vision but fades to a blur when you gaze head on. Magnification reveals several bright blue stars burrowing through long filaments of ionized gas and dust. The brightest of these are the famed Seven Sisters or Pleiades.
⭐ The Winter Sky Sapphires
Version of M45 reprocessed to reveal the interstellar dust.
Dusty M45
One of my favorite winter targets, the Pleiades are easily visible as a bright cluster of stars that resemble a 'tiny dipper.' You can see their faint bluish/purple glow with the naked eye and the Seven Sisters are photogenic and multiple focal lengths. This is a series of broadband RGB long exposures to bring out the subtle dust and nebulosity that surround this young group of stars.
M45 in 2022
A long exposure reveals the wispy tendrils of nebulosity that surround the major stars in M45 like a cocoon.
⭐ The Pleiades
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