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Community photo entitled  by Harshwardhan Pathak on 01/18/2024 at El Sauce Observatory, Chile

On 01/18/2024 01:11 am by Harshwardhan Pathak| El Sauce Observatory, Chile

The Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters, Messier 45, an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth. It is the nearest Messier object to Earth, and is the most obvious cluster to the naked eye in the night sky.

It's a 9-panel mosaic of this region of total integration 5 hours.

Telescope: Planewave CDK24
Camera: QHY 600M PRO
Mount: Mathis MI-1250
Filters: Astrodon LRGB

Mosaic stitched-in Astro Pixel Processor
Processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop