The Pleiades
Oct 23, 2018 17:52:09 #
northcoast42
Loc: Puget Sound, Washington
After I finished with Andromeda back on the 13th, I noticed the Pleiades rising in the east so I pointed at them and just let my camera run for a while with 30 second exposures at iso1600 to see what I could get and this is the result.
Also known as the Seven Sisters. M45 in the Messier catalog. An open star cluster containing middle-aged stars in the constellation Taurus. Among the closest star clusters to Earth at an average distance of 444 light years. You can see them in the evening now, rising in the eastern sky through the night. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will remain for about another 250 million years before gravitational interactions within its galactic neighborhood rearrange and disperse the stars. If you ever listen to Coast-to-Coast AM on the radio at night, sooner or later you will hear alien abductee stories or tales of alien visitation and the folks claiming these tales will often say our "visitors" come from the Pleiades 👽🤔
Nikon D810
Explore Scientific 127mm APO refractor
47x30sec iso1600
30 Dark, 30 flat, 33 bias
Aligned/stacked in DSS
Processed in Pixinsight
Also known as the Seven Sisters. M45 in the Messier catalog. An open star cluster containing middle-aged stars in the constellation Taurus. Among the closest star clusters to Earth at an average distance of 444 light years. You can see them in the evening now, rising in the eastern sky through the night. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will remain for about another 250 million years before gravitational interactions within its galactic neighborhood rearrange and disperse the stars. If you ever listen to Coast-to-Coast AM on the radio at night, sooner or later you will hear alien abductee stories or tales of alien visitation and the folks claiming these tales will often say our "visitors" come from the Pleiades 👽🤔
Nikon D810
Explore Scientific 127mm APO refractor
47x30sec iso1600
30 Dark, 30 flat, 33 bias
Aligned/stacked in DSS
Processed in Pixinsight
Oct 24, 2018 17:06:32 #
I think I love this time of the year.
The nights are cooler (Less distortions), and the interesting Winter objects are coming around.
My old Friend Orion has been rising around 11:30-ish, last time I looked.
Great shot of the Pleiades, John!
The nights are cooler (Less distortions), and the interesting Winter objects are coming around.
My old Friend Orion has been rising around 11:30-ish, last time I looked.
Great shot of the Pleiades, John!
Nov 7, 2018 08:55:57 #
Nov 12, 2018 17:00:14 #
northcoast42 wrote:
After I finished with Andromeda back on the 13th, ... (show quote)
Great work on the Nebulosity.
Craig
Nov 12, 2018 22:46:28 #
That's a awesome image of the "7 Sisters" John , Rain is my nemesis this week. I think I'll build an ARK.
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