Acrylic on canvas 2017
A more thorough reworking of Taurus’ famous Pleiades.
The Pleiades are an ethereal, glowing collection of several hundred stars, but just seven B and O spectrum stars are bare-eye visible, and several dozen are binocular-visible, which is the limit used in this painting. Gobs of space dust are lit by both the seen and unseen stars, creating one of the Northern sky’s great attractions.
