Messier 45, also known as the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters, is an open star cluster in Taurus. This star cluster, which features in many myths and legends around the world, is about 444 light years from Earth and contains over one thousand stars that are loosely bound together by gravity. Many of these stars are young, hot, blue stars. The interstellar dust that surrounds these stars reflects their light to create a reflection nebula. Although visible to the unaided eye, Messier 45 is truly stunning when seen with binoculars or a wide-field telescope.

WO RedCat51 astrograph, ZWO ASI183MC camera with L-Pro filter, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount.

28 4-minute lights (guided) plus calibration frames were stacked using DeepSkyStacker; other post-processing with SiriL, Photoshop CS2 plus Astronomy Tools plugin, ImagesPlus, StarNet++ and MS Photo.