M45 Pleiades (Seven Sisters)
Location
- Date - Time
Camera
Optics
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Software
Conditions
Canon
350D modified by Hap.
LXD75
mount Guided with Astro IIDC through Meade SN-6"
with I.S. DMK 21AF04.AS
Nebulosity
for capture and stacking, Photoshop CS2 for post
processing
Transparency
, Seeing , Temperature +40 °F
Orion
80ED, WO 0.8 FR, with Astronomik CLS
Filter
Massapoag
Pond Observatory Lunenburg, MA - Jan. 1st and 2nd
2008 @ 7:00 PM EST
Notes
Diffuse
nebula
30 X
180 sec frames 30 darks and flats ISO
1600.
The
most famous star cluster on the sky, The Pleiades
can be seen without binoculars from even the
depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as
the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of
the brightest and closest open clusters. The
Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400
light years away, and only 13 light years across.
Quite evident in the above photograph are the
blue reflection nebulae that surround the bright
cluster stars.
M45
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