Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  54 Tau)  ·  54 gam Tau  ·  55 Tau  ·  57 h Tau  ·  58 Tau  ·  60 Tau  ·  61 Tau)  ·  61 del Tau  ·  63 Tau  ·  64 Tau  ·  68 Tau  ·  70 Tau  ·  71 Tau  ·  73 pi. Tau  ·  74 Tau)  ·  74 eps Tau  ·  75 Tau  ·  76 Tau  ·  77 Tau)  ·  77 the01 Tau  ·  78 Tau)  ·  78 the02 Tau  ·  80 Tau  ·  81 Tau  ·  84 Tau  ·  85 Tau  ·  86 Tau  ·  86 rho Tau  ·  87 Tau)  ·  87 alf Tau  ·  And 31 more.
Hyades, Jan Scheers
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The Hyades cluster is the closest star cluster to Earth, at a distance of 153 light years. 

LRGB-image acquired with the Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in IC Astronomy Observatory in Spain.

Total integration time 180 minutes
LRGB: 9 sub-frames of 300s with each color filter
Dataset Telescope Live.

Processing with PixInsight (using AutoIntegrate script), Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and NoiseXTerminator plug-ins.

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