M45 THE PLEIADES CLUSTER
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M45 THE PLEIADES CLUSTER |
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| Negatives - November 1998 | The Pleiades Star Cluster is one of the most recognizable objects in the sky. The winter season open cluster of stars marks the cold weather season passing as it dances across the heavens. Known by a variety of descriptive names, one of the most popular, "The Seven Sisters" actually belies the several hundred stars that actually make up the local region of this cluster. In addition, although in moderate skies the number of naked eye visible stars is around 6 or 7, up to 16 have been recorded at times from very dark skies in excellent conditions and it is noted that up to 20 may actually have magnitudes that could border on naked eye visibility. This is considered another of the unique, and exquisitely beautifully visible, telescopic and photographic objects in the heavens. |
| Meade 5" ED Refractor F/9 | |
| 216XT Autoguider | |
| Pentax K1000 Body | |
| Kodak PJM Multispeed, Unhypered | |
| 2 x 45 Min./2 x 50 Min.Exposures | |
| Image Stacking in Picture Window | |
| Digital Enhanced (levels) in Photoshop | |
| Processing Info: This
is a later processed version of negatives shot in 1998, first
shots with the Meade 5" ED Refractor, camera and mount combination.
Processed in December 2000 using Acer Scanwit 2720S scans, Picture
Window for registering and stacking, curves and balance in Photo
Shop.
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| Object Details Courtesy Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Robert Burnham, Jr. (1978 Dover Publications) | |