M45 Pleiades Cluster #13 (Molly Wakeling)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 16 Tau · 17 Tau · 18 Tau · 19 Tau) · 19 q Tau · 20 Tau · 21 Tau · 22 Tau · 23 Tau · 24 Tau · 25 Tau) · 25 eta Tau · 26 Tau · 27 Tau · 28 Tau · Alcyone · Asterope · Atlas · Barnard's Merope Nebula · Celaeno · Electra · HD23156 · HD23157 · HD23158 · HD23194 · HD23246 · HD23247 · HD23325 · HD23326 · HD23361 · And 73 more.

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M45 Pleiades Cluster #13

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M45 Pleiades Cluster #13

In between working on my research today...got another Okie-Tex image processed!

M45, the Pleiades Cluster, aka the Seven Sisters! This setup was quite unique -- I got to borrow an incredible Nikon 400mm f/2.8 camera lens from Tim Hutchison on The Astro Imaging Channel, and I paired it with the QHY533M that I'm testing for QHY. It came out quite nice! 30s was too long an exposure time and it shows, but I got it to stretch okay.

M45 is a cluster of some 1,000 stars, dominated by hot, blue stars born inside the last 100 million years. It was originally thought that the reflection nebula around them was leftover stellar material from their birth, but it is now thought to be an interstellar dust cloud through which the cluster is passing. The cluster lies 444 lightyears away in the constellation Taurus.

Many cultures and civilizations around the world have folklore and observations of the Pleiades. One modern place you might not have noticed the Pleiades is the automaker Subaru's logo -- it has six stars, and Subaru is the Japanese name for the cluster. The Pleiades are mentioned in the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as three times in the Bible.

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RA (center)	03h46m47s.38
RA (top/left)	03h43m16s.50
RA (top/right)	03h43m35s.47
RA (bottom/right)	03h50m16s.10
RA (bottom/left)	03h50m01s.65

Dec (center)	+24°05′51″.3
Dec (top/left)	+24°52′07″.7
Dec (top/right)	+23°15′40″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°19′11″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+24°55′45″.7

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