Inspite of all the beautiful stars, I have a fascination for the dark stuff lurking between them Today I managed to get almost an hour of exposures of the Taurus molecular cloud,

The dust cloud between the Pleiades and Auriga is called the Taurus molecular cloud, 27x120s (54m), AF-D Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 at f/2.8, Nikon D750, ISO 800.

The dust cloud is surrounded by the Pleiades (M45) to the right, the Hyades, an other open cluster on the bottom bottom (including two more distant open clusters NGC1647 and NGC1736) and the California nebula (NGC1499) in the upper right corner. If you look closely you can find even more deepsky objects in this image (the double cluster, the flaming star nebula,…)

a detail of the image above:

The dust cloud between the Pleiades and Auriga is called the Taurus molecular cloud, 27x120s (54m), AF-D Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 at f/2.8, Nikon D750, ISO 800.

The scenery was nice too: