Tom Droege captured the Pleiades with the Mark IV "Michael" on Oct 18, 2000, from his house in Batavia, Illinois. Exposures are 50 seconds long in V and I, and I've rotated the images so that North is up and East to the left.
The full frames cover MUCH more sky than the star cluster:
So here are closeups of the cluster: first V, then I. Note the nebulosity around the bright stars, especially Merope (the one furthest south).
