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M45 - The Pleiades
A star cluster consisting of young, hot blue stars, about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.  Only part of the cluster is shown here because it is too large to fit in the scope's field of view.

M45 - The Pleiades

A star cluster consisting of young, hot blue stars, about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. Only part of the cluster is shown here because it is too large to fit in the scope's field of view.




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Filename:M45-20121014.jpg
Album name:27telp / Star Clusters
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, CA, USA; 10/14/2012
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 refractor, QSI-583wsg CCD camera, Astro-Physics 1200GTO mount, Borg Mini-50 guidescope, Starlight Xpress Lodestar guide camera
Settings:Luminance - 10 exposures @ 5 minutes each, bin 1x1; Red, Green and Blue - 9 exposures @ 5 minutes each, bin 1x1
Notes:Captured with MaxIm DL v5.07, processed with CCDStack2 and Photoshop
Filesize:319 KiB
Date added:Jun 19, 2019
Dimensions:2048 x 1541 pixels
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