The Pleiades M45 in Taurus, 444ly

I wanted to use the reducer on my new telescope so thought I would get a close in view of The Pleiades at 672mm. In this picture I somewhat deemphasized the stars as I wanted everyone to see all the whisps of gas and dust that are found in this cluster (what I read said there are over a 1000 stars in this cluster). Nowhere in space have I seen a more beautiful blue that shows up with such brilliance. Truly The Pleiades in one extraordinary object in space.

Askar 120apo@672f5.6, 2600MM Pro g100. [7.9hrs total] R:38x300s G:26x300s B:31x300s
+darks/biases/flats.
AM5/ASIair+, EAF, Askar OAG with ASI174mini for guiding

PixInsight, plus RC-Astro BXT, SXT, NXT, plus scripts by Cosmic Photons, Seti Astro & others

Believe it or not The Pleiades is one of the easier objects to photograph. I did this in RGB using a mono camera. I have never seen this object done with narrowband filters. Who would want to change such a beautiful blue. Part of the reason the colors are so intense is that this object is “only” 444 ly away, that’s close. This just helps prove how big space is!!!