Pleiades and California Nebula Wide-Field (Tomi Kurri)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: Barnard's Merope Nebula · California Nebula · IC 349 · IC 353 · IC 354 · Maia Nebula · Merope Nebula · NGC 1333 · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · NGC 1499 · Part of the constellation Perseus (Per) · The star 40Per · The star 54Per · The star Atik (ζPer) · The star Atlas (27Tau) · The star Electra (17Tau) · The star Merope (23Tau) · The star Taygeta (19Tau) · The star ηTau · The star ξPer · The star οPer

Pleiades and California Nebula Wide-Field, Tomi Kurri

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The Pleiades together with the California Nebula, taken from the shores of a frozen meteor lake.

Our local astronomy club had a star party by the lake Sääksjärvi in Southwestern Finland. The impact crater below the lake was formed over 500 million years ago. The site has quite dark skies (Bortle 3) and we had our fingers crossed for good weather.

As luck would have it, the skies cleared up and I managed to shoot several targets for 14 hours straight (!). This pair was my first target and I got nearly 6 hours of exposure time. As the night went on, the temperature dropped to - 17 degrees Celsius. There were no issues with the Star Adventurer but I did need to change the battery of my Canon 5 times during the night.

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