Wallpaper author:
Rodney Hughes
17 May 2026
M45 Pleiades Nebula
The M45 Pleiades Nebula is a conspicuous array of very bright stars with blue nebulosity in the constellation Taurus that was processed using PixInsight as an LRGB image. Resolution is 1.46 arcsec/pixel.
Dataset from which the image was processed
M45
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Open Cluster
- Camera............................................................................................................................QHY 600M
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 56.6008 Dec 24.1139
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Australia
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................10 Sept 2023 - 25 Dec 2024
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 367 | 2h45m | 27 |
| Red | 265 | 1h55m | 26 |
| Green | 265 | 1h55m | 26 |
| Blue | 300 | 2h10m | 26 |