The Pleiades and the Meriope Nebula
Designations:
• Common Name: Pleiades
• Messier: M45
• New General Catalogue: n/a
• Other: n/a
Telescope: Vernonscope
Camera: Canon 350D
Object Type: Open Cluster
Distance: 444ly
Constellation: Taurus
Right Ascension: 3 Hrs, 48′, 5.00″
Declination: 24°, 10′, 12.00″
Magnitude: 1.60
60x60s one shot color, stacked in DeepSky Stacker and processed in Photoshop CS4
(Image ID: 246)
Called the Seven Sisters, there’s significantly more than 7, just too faint to see naked eye. I love that I’m just catching the nebulosity of the Meriope nebula
Designations:
• Common Name: Pleiades
• Messier: M45
• New General Catalogue: NGC 1432
• Other: Seven Sisters
Telescope: Vernonscope
Camera: Nikon D5000
Object Type: Open Cluster
Distance: 0.38
Constellation: Taurus
Right Ascension: 3 Hrs, 47′, 0.00″
Declination: 24°, 7′, 0.00″
Magnitude: 1.60
I can no longer recall the details of this image’s capture or processing
(Image ID: 31)