M45 - the beautiful Pleiades

"Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid" according to Alfred Lord Tennyson 1835. Ploughing through intergalactic dust at 18km/s, some 440 LY away, these bright jewels herald winter. A fairly short integration combining data from Bortle 5 and Bortle 2.5 skies, see https://app.astrobin.com/i/pp2315

09-13 14:48 · United Kingdom England

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