Pleiades (M 45)
The Seven Sisters in a blue veil – eleven and a half hours of light.
What you get
- Format
- JPEG
- Resolution
- 4 835 × 2 993 px (14.5 MPx)
- Aspect ratio
- 1,62:1
- File size
- 7.1 MB
- Recommended print size
- 40 × 25 cm at 300 DPI – viewed up close
61 × 38 cm at 200 DPI – framed on a wall
Larger prints are possible but will look softer up close. - Suitable for
- For printing for personal use, or as a desktop or TV background.
- Licence
- Personal, non-commercial use. You may not resell, share or use the file commercially. Terms
- Watermark
- No watermark. If the image carries the author’s signature, so does the file.
- Delivery
- Download link right after payment – on the order page and by e-mail. Valid 7 days, 5 downloads.
About the object
The Pleiades (M45) in Taurus are an open star cluster about 440 light years away and roughly 100 million years old. The blue nebula around the stars is not the cloud they formed from – the cluster happens to be passing through it, and the dust reflects their blue light.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 7 October 2025 (start, several nights)
- Total exposure
- 11 h 34 min (344 × 121 s)
- Camera
- ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Focal length
- 449 mm
- Mount
- ZWO AM5N
- Location
- Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (home observatory)
- Calibration & stacking
- Siril 1.4.0-rc2
- Processing
- Adobe Lightroom 9.0 (Windows)
Data from the original file’s metadata or from the author.