Pleiades
Taken with an amatur 18cm telescope carried in my car with 145min exposure in the dark sky area near Mt.Fuji here in Japan.
This is a reflection nebula lightened by the the bright hot young stars inside which are visible with naked eyes, also beautiful to see with benoculars.
10 sec exposure will be enough to show the stars but long time effrot taking attempt is necessary to show the faint blue veil of the beautiful gas clouds.
Blue color is made of ionized oxgen and red color is made of ionized hydrogen gas.
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Most beautiful... I often search the night sky for the Pleiades, but I've never "seen" them so close...

Thank you,

Dragos
Henrik Just 9 months ago
Most amazing work, Yasuaki !

It must be one of the finest astronomy-photos I´ve ever seen.

Congrats !

Regards

Henrik

martin zalba 9 months ago
wonderfull!
I only can say: wow

congratulations fot the shot
Helle Lorenzen 9 months ago
Amazing and very beautiful.....;-)
Sinan Tabanli 9 months ago
Nothing to say about it. Just great space!
Robert 9 months ago
Beautiful!
Wow....!! This is amazing, it look's like something NASA shot :-))

/Wulff
Alvaro Márquez 9 months ago
Absolutely amazing. Speechless.
Qin 9 months ago
Wonderful! Congrats!!!
Ansel Siegenthaler 9 months ago
Simply fantastic! Cheers
great image,I like its great light.
Joël Monster 9 months ago
So great!
Jan Hermans 9 months ago
You have done a VERY good job! I really enjoy trying to capture some of these objects myself, and already happy when I just have a glimp : ). Shots like the one you made I think it's impossible here in the Netherlands haha..
Monika Teresa 9 months ago
Beautiful!
Monki Ho 9 months ago
excellent!!
Iñigo Barandiaran 9 months ago
Amazing Image. congratulations, and thanks for sharing :)
John Parminter 9 months ago
Quite beautiful and thanks for the technique information. JP
YASUAKI SEGAWA 9 months ago
Hello Janko and George
and thank you Jeroen

The telescope had been mounted on an euatorial mount which has a motor drive making rotation syncronized with star rotation. I also used a sub small 3cm telescope with a small auto guiding camer attached to trace the star rotation perfectlly which sends the correction signals to the motor compensating the gear periodic errors and wind shaking movment errors.
Micron scale correction is necessary to keep the stars in perfect round shape.
Jeroen Oosterhof 9 months ago
This must be the most beautiful image i've seen of the pleades taken with an amateur telescope.
George Doupas 9 months ago
Fantastic image! I have the same question with Janko Cvitas :)) How did you manage to avoid the trace from the stars!!?? Congrats!!!

is it because of cooled camera you use??
Jeroen Oosterhof  If I may replay... The telescope has a built in motor which cancels out the earth's rotation(after proper allignment).
George Doupas  Thank you!!!
nini_filippini 9 months ago
never seen them like this, congratulions, it's a perfect shot
Janko Cvitas 9 months ago
How did you avoid getting a trace from each star, because of earth's rotation (with such a long exposure)? If I may ask. :)
BLOAS Meven 9 months ago
CRAZY work oO !
Mauro Tandoi 9 months ago
wonderful
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18cm reflector F2.8+35mm cooled digital camera
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