Pleiades
It's hard to ignore this feature of the winter sky. From the corner of your eye it seems like a bright cloud, which somehow fades as you view it directly. This illusion says more about the way our vision is constructed than the nature of the star cluster itself. But imaging reveals the unusual grouping of hot blue stars passing through a dusty patch in space which provides the ethereal blue reflection nebulae.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/1.08 flattener/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/ZWO ASI1600MC camera/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount. 76 minutes of 4 second exposures, captured with SharpCap 3.2, processed with PixInsight, finished with ACDSee. Captured November 2nd from my yard 10 miles north of NYC.
Pleiades
It's hard to ignore this feature of the winter sky. From the corner of your eye it seems like a bright cloud, which somehow fades as you view it directly. This illusion says more about the way our vision is constructed than the nature of the star cluster itself. But imaging reveals the unusual grouping of hot blue stars passing through a dusty patch in space which provides the ethereal blue reflection nebulae.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/1.08 flattener/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/ZWO ASI1600MC camera/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount. 76 minutes of 4 second exposures, captured with SharpCap 3.2, processed with PixInsight, finished with ACDSee. Captured November 2nd from my yard 10 miles north of NYC.