Monday, January 07, 2008

M45 Pleiades

Here are the Pleiades (the 7 sisters) in constellation Taurus. It is a open cluster of stars 440 lightyears distance from us.
They are young stars with large nebulae surrounding them, since they are so bright these nebulae also light up. It was actually the 1st test with my autoguided telescope. The exposure was 2x 5min autoguided on ISO100, and 1x32s on ISO800.

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