M 45, also known as The Pleiades or Seven Sisters, is a bright open cluster in the constellation Taurus. Comprising mostly luminous, hot blue stars, the surrounding nebulosity is thought to be an interstellar dust cloud between us and the cluster. M 45 is easily seen naked eye, and under dark skies the blue nebulosity is apparent.

This image is the first of our 2018-2019 season at SC Observatory. more than 1,200 two-minute subexposures, totaling almost 42 hours, were taken over three nights using our 4-scope wide field array. The array is controlled using a custom multi-scope version of Voyager software. Image processing in PixInsight and Photoshop.

Imaged and processed in Samphran, Thailand by the SC Observatory team: Mike Selby, Andy Chatman and Stefan Schmidt.