Constellation tour in Winter
Taurus (The Bull)


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Date & Time: Nov 13 2020, from 25:03 to 25:39 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 4 minutes exposed
Optical: TAMRON 17-35mm Di OSD (f=24mm, stop: F4.0)
with IDAS LPS-P2-FF & Kenko Softon Clear filters
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5184×3456)
Sensitivity...ISO800




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Midnight in late autumn, you can appreciate constellations of winter at eastern sky. You'll pay attention a group of several stars gathering cozy and a "V" shaped asterism a bit looser. They are open clusters of the Pleiades and the Hyades respectively, and the cluster of Hyades forms the face of Bull, the Taurus. The Hyades includes a bright and reddish star of Aldebaran that looks like bull's eye being bloodshot.
The constellation shows mainly the horns of bull, The southern horn starts from Hyades and extends to zeta Tauri, and another one of north lifts up just north of the Hyades, through to beta Tauri, that is part of Auriga. The rest of the bull is rather faint, a slight body and two spindle legs.



Guide for Deep Sky Objects

The Pleiades M45 ...One of most attractive Open Clusters in winter skies, 410 ly. away
Molecular clouds around M45 ...Dimmed nebulosity spread around the Pleiades
Melope Nebula ...Vast reflection nebula covering southern Pleiades
The Hyades ...Huge Open Cluster shaped like "V", 140 ly. away
California Nebula, Pleiades & Hyades ...A wide view of two clusters above & a diffused nebula in Perseus
Crab Nebula M1 ...Supernova remnant 1.5 degree NW of zeta Tauri, 7200 ly. away
NGC1409 & NGC1410 ...A distant coliding galactic pair on border to Eridanus, 300 million ly. away
NGC1514 ...A small planetary nebula near a border to Perseus, 4300 ly. away
Around Hind's variable nebula to Sh2-239 ...Molecular cloud at northern part of Hyades & two emission nebulae including T Tauri stars
NGC1647 & NGC1746 ...Medium-sized open clusters between the horns
NGC1807 & NGC1817 ...Small open clusters paralleled with interval of 20' at the boundary on Orion
Sh2-240(Simeis147) ...Very faint but vast supernova remnant around boundary on Auriga
LBN826 ...Small & round nebula in east of supernova remnant of Sh2-240
Sh2-243 ...Small orange reflection nebula at 2.2deg. north of ζTau
Sh2-245 ...Faint supernova remnant in western region, "Orion-Eridanus superbubble"
Sh2-250, Sh2-251 ...Two indistinct Hα diffused nebulae in southern region
Taurus Molecular Cloud ...Dimmed inter-stellar cloud distributed in west of Pleiades
vdB26 ...Small & bluish reflection nebula at 1.4 deg. NW of μ Tau, 500 ly away
Around vdB27, B10 ...Reflection & Dark nebulosities in central Taurus Molecular Cloud
vdB29 ...Reflection nebula in part of Taurus Molecular Cloud near border to Auriga
Nebulosities around the Hyades ...Distribution of molecular & dark nebulae around the Hyades




Monoceros

Auriga


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