Messier 45 in Taurus
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deeplook.at
deeplook.at
2017-11-15+17
Baader APO 95/560 CaF2 Travel Companion + Field Flattener M68
10micron GM1000 HPS
28x6 min ISO 800
2h 48min
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Nikon D810A
Image acquisition by CEDIC team (Christoph Kaltseis, Bernhard Hubl, Markus Blauensteiner) Image processing by Christoph Kaltseis
Open star cluster (I3r) with reflection nebula
Tau
110’
1.6 mag
440 Ly
The Pleiades nebulae are blue-colored, which indicates that they are reflection nebulae, reflecting the light of the bright stars situated near (or within) them. Physically, the reflection nebula is probably part of the dust in a molecular cloud, unrelated to the Pleiades cluster, which happens to cross the cluster's way. It is not a remainder of the nebula from which the cluster once formed.