If you’ve ever looked up at the winter sky and noticed a tight little knot of blue-white stars, you’ve already met the Pleiades. M45 is one of those objects that’s been observed, mythologized, and photographed more times than almost anything else in the sky — and yet there’s a reason people keep coming back to it.
Continue reading M45: The Pleiades 🌟Of all the objects in the night sky, few capture the imagination quite like M42—the Great Orion Nebula. Visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy “star” in Orion’s sword, even under moderately light-polluted skies, it’s been observed for millennia. This was one of the first deep-space objects I ever tried to photograph (back around 2018), but there’s always something new to discover.
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