Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  105 Tau  ·  11 Tau  ·  13.17  ·  13.22  ·  16 Tau  ·  160 Una  ·  18 Tau  ·  210 Isabella  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 Tau)  ·  26 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  33 Tau  ·  37 A01 Tau  ·  38 Per)  ·  38 omi Per  ·  3C 123.0  ·  3HSPJ050043.1+190317  ·  40 o Per  ·  41 Tau  ·  42 n Per  ·  42 psi Tau  ·  44 Per)  ·  44 zet Per  ·  46 ksi Per  ·  48 Tau  ·  498 Tokio  ·  50 ome Tau  ·  And 893 more.
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Plejades, Hyades and California Nebula Wide Field, Bernd Limburg
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Plejades, Hyades and California Nebula Wide Field

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The second result with my Sigma 50 mm F1.4 ART lens: A tour from Aldebaran and the widely scattered Hyades in the lower left to the more concentrated Plejades embedded in their blue nebulae in the lower center/right and the luminous California Nebula in the upper right corner. A lot of interstellar dust clouds are also in this region.

The dark nebulae and dust clouds are a bit tricky to carve out given the light pollution at my location and the resulting strong gradients that have to be eliminated without affecting the dusty sky background.

Again, I integrated this image using 2x drizzle because of the undersampling at 50 mm focal length and 3.76 micron pixels.

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Plejades, Hyades and California Nebula Wide Field, Bernd Limburg