Around Taurus Molecular Cloud

Deep Sky Object in Winter

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Date & Time:	Nov 14 2020, from 23:00 to 26:05 JST(+0900)
	Mosaic of 3 flames of 3min.×20shots
Optical:	AF zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm F2.8 (f=80mm, Aperture: F4.0)
	with Kenko Starry-Night filter
	Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera:	Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location:	Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings:	Recording format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5472×3648)
	Device Size...35×24mm, Sensitivity...ISO1600

This image has captured a 44°×24° star field around western Taurus with a medium-ranged telephoto lens. You can recognize the Pleiades at a bit left hand side of the image, and the constellation of Aries is lying in right hand side of the image. This field includes an extraordinary dimmed inter-stellar gaseous matter of "The Taurus Molecular Cloud", from which plural stars has been born including the Pleiades. A lump of cloud in this image has distributed over 50 degrees, and other part of the cloud is distributed toward Aries in west, Perseus and Auriga in the eastern region. We have to expose long time under good transparency night sky to capture the cloud.

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Objects & constellations around the Taurus molecular cloud

Red Rectangle

Nebulosities around the Hyades

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