“Sweetie, you’re glowing”,
we said to the #Moon,
as she hung
gorgeous and glorious
in the night sky;
a 21.4% #WaxingCrescent,
artfully,
and perhaps
strategically placed,
next to #thePleiades star cluster,
or #SevenSisters
(Messier 45; M45).
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New moon… and once again, cloudy as f*ck. But we saw it coming! Before closing the previous cycle, we revisited our favourite sisters. Seven, to be precise. Here’s a fresh look at #ThePleiades! [🧵 THREAD] #astrophotography #extremadura

M45 - The Pleiades - telescope processed image. While famous for the Seven Sisters, M45 is actually a massive nursery of over 1,000 stars. Most are too dim for the naked eye, but they all formed from the same cloud of gas.

M45 - The Pleiades - unprocessed image. The cluster is moving together through the galaxy like a flock of birds! They travel at roughly 40 km/s, but in 250 million years, they will drift apart and go their separate ways.

Good Sunday afternoon. Have many images to share from last night. Starting out with the long exposure of #M45 - #ThePleiades from the Dwarf Mini. #dwarflabs #dwarfmini #space #astronomy #amateur

M45 - The Pleiades - telescope processed image. Known as the "Seven Sisters," these stars have been used for 1,000s of years by sailors and farmers to mark the changing seasons.

M45 - The Pleiades - unprocessed image. The ghostly blue haze around the stars isn't their own gas; they are just passing through a dust cloud that reflects their light.

Good Friday evening. Received the newest member of my telescope stable - Dwarflabs Dwarf Mini telescope. Here is my first image - #M45 - #ThePleiades. #dwarflabs #dwarfmini #space #astronomy #amateur

M45 - The Pleiades - telescope processed image. Though only about 6 stars are usually visible to the naked eye, the cluster actually contains over 1,000 stars located roughly 444 light-years away from Earth.

M45 - The Pleiades - unprocessed image. The stars are quite young, having formed only about 100 million years ago—meaning they didn't exist yet when the first dinosaurs appeared on our planet.

Next up is #M45 - #ThePleiades. #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur

#LunarOccultation of #M45 #ThePleiades 1 Apr '25. I photographed it from Preston, Lancs. Canon 1100D + Sigma 300mm zoom lens on a static tripod. I didn't stay out for the entire event but I've created a short video of what I did capture #WaxingCrescentMoon #Earthshine

The night sky
Cancun, Mexico 12-12-25 around 10:26pm
Taken with my Samsung galaxy fold 7
#nightsky #galaxyfold7 #ThePleiades

The Pleiades on the left with Uranus on the right as a blue dot. Taken with a Nikon Z5 and a 150mm lens with 60 sec exposures tracked with MoveShootMove Nomad. Processed in PixInsight with 49 out of 62 frames used.

This images labels various object using the plate solver script in PixInsight. It is easier to find Uranus here.

The Pleiades and Uranus from Nov 22. A clean and labeled image. More in alt. #BlueTue #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #astrophotography #nightskyphotography #ThePleiades #Pleiades #Uranus #Planets #Taurus

#BadPoet #Poem #Poetry #Writing #NarrativePoetry #ThePleiades #HopeULikeIt
It takes a thread - 1/9 <—-

“Dance of Seven Sisters”

Upon the breast
of night they gleam.
Seven souls
from an ancient dream.
Daughter’s Atlas,
steadfast, strong.
And Pleione,
who sang their song.

1/9

1 of 2 Photo: A slightly less than full moon is in the lower left corner, it is surrounded by a bright halo of light. In the upper center of the picture are ten barely visible dots - these are the stars in the Pleiades star cluster whose light is being overwhelmed by the nearness and extreme brightness of the moon.

2 of 2 Photo (same as picture 1 but with labels): A slightly less than full moon is in the lower left corner, it is surrounded by a bright halo of light. In the upper center of the picture are ten barely visible dots - these are the stars in the Pleiades star cluster whose light is being overwhelmed by the nearness and extreme brightness of the moon. In this picture the stars have been labelled. From the bottom to top anticlockwise: Pleione, Atlas, Alcyone, Merope, Electra, Celaeno, Taygeta, Asterope 1 and 2, and Maia. Lines have also been added to connect them.

The waning gibbous moon was near the Pleiades star cluster Thursday evening.

#Stargazing #Moon #ThePleiades #Astronomy #NightSky

M45 The Pleiades - telescope processed image. M45 is the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, a bright open star cluster in Taurus. Its hot blue stars pass through an unrelated dust cloud, creating a blue reflection nebula.

M45 The Pleiades - unprocessed image. Nicknamed the "Seven Sisters," this star cluster has been seen as a group of seven in myths across cultures, possibly humanity's oldest story.

Talking about going back to items previously observed, here is #M45 #ThePleiades. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

#ThePleiades ❤️

So beautiful! 💞

#astronomy #astrophotography #ThePleiades #SevenSisters

A quick heads-up that tomorrow there is a #LunarOccultation of #M45 #thePleiades visible from the UK. The #CrescentMoon shouldn't overpower the cluster too much. If you have binoculars it will look even better!

Orion, Taurus and all seven Pleiades shining beyond the still bare tree branches.

iPhone astronomy
#aboutlastnight #thepleiades #nightofthehunter

A predawn photo of the sky, but that's not all! Across the top of the image are many small stars set against a deep blue sky which gradually turns to a gradient of pale yellows and orange of sunrise colors at the horizon toward the bottom of the image. On the far right, and down from the top of the image is the small bright constellation of The Pleiades, and much lower down toward the brightening horizon is the brilliant planet Venus. From the center of the image, and just up to the left is a bright streak of light, slanted down from left to right. That is the trail of the International Space Station over a few seconds of exposure, as it quickly crosses the sky. Below that, closer to the changing colors along the horizon is a ghostly baby blue, twisting cloud that stretches from the left of the image to about the center along the horizon. These are rare clouds very, very high in the atmosphere called "Noctilucent Clouds". (I will post a link to a wiki article on them in the comments) Almost hidden in the advancing dawn colors and the Noctilucent Clouds is a dash of brightness steeply tilted from right, to left. That is the Comet Neowise (Also an article in the comments). Below the horizon are low, getnly rolling hills as far as the eye can see, in a dull gold color of grasses, lit by the light of the Moon (the moon is not in the image frame). Also, along the horizon, and the the far left, is a large grouping of small red lights in the distance. Those are a huge number of safety lights atop electrical wind turbines.

Sunday = #Stunday! This image from July of 2020 left me stunned and laughing because it was just too much!
This #predawn scene is full of sky celebrities!
You've got #Venus, #ThePleiades, #ISS, #NoctilucentClouds, AND #CometNeowise! #blueskyartshow #photography #astrophotgraphy #📷 #🔭 #EastCoastKin

My more recent images, Barnard 33 - The Horsehead Nebula and M45 - The Pleiades

#barnard33 #thepleiades #m45 #b33 #astrophotography #pleiades #thehorseheadnebula #horseheadnebula

Stunning photo of #ThePleiades

Got some half decent shots of Orion, Jupiter, & the Pleiades last night. Tried the gimbal to hold the phone steady but went back to handheld 10s exposure & then some post processing to enhance & remove the majority of the ambient light.

#astrophotography #nightsky #Orion #Jupiter #ThePleiades

The Pleiades aka Seven Sisters. I used my Apertura CarbonStar for this. It's been fun learning to use a newtonian as someone who started with refractors. Imaging session was Nov 2 in my backyard in Virginia. #astrophotography #thepleiades #space