the.cosmic.arena
Pleiones Daughters
When Atlas was punished to bear the heavens on his shoulders, his seven daughters with Pleione - Asterope, Electra, Merope, Maia, Celaeno, Taygeta, and Alcyone – started to be pursued by the hunter Orion, who had fell in love with them and their mother. In pity of their suffering, Zeus first turned them into doves and then into stars, to protect them from the Orion’s advances who, it is said, still pursues them across the sky.
Known from, at least, the Bronze Age, the Pleiades star cluster an hallmark and leitmotiv for mythologies across several civilizations and they were/are also known as Soraya (old Persia) or Subaru (Japan).
The Pleiades is an open cluster with about 1,000 stars at about 440 light years but only the brightest are visible at naked eye, even in light polluted skies; but in a dark sky and viewed through binoculars it is a truly amazing sight. They will be gravitationally bound for another 250 million and by then it will disperse in Orion’s constellation.
Shot at Santa Susana, Portugal on 01.Oct.2023 and 18.Jan.2023.
Technical details:
LUM: 178 x 180s (8h54)
RGB: 105 x 180s (5h15)
SW EQ6-R Pro | TS Optics Triplet APO 800/115 | TS Optics TSFLAT2 0.79x | QHYCCD 268M | Optolong LRGB | RBFocus Gaius-S | RBFocus Myrrdin 2.3
Acquisition: N.I.N.A. | Processing: Pixinsight
Pleiones Daughters
When Atlas was punished to bear the heavens on his shoulders, his seven daughters with Pleione - Asterope, Electra, Merope, Maia, Celaeno, Taygeta, and Alcyone – started to be pursued by the hunter Orion, who had fell in love with them and their mother. In pity of their suffering, Zeus first turned them into doves and then into stars, to protect them from the Orion’s advances who, it is said, still pursues them across the sky.
Known from, at least, the Bronze Age, the Pleiades star cluster an hallmark and leitmotiv for mythologies across several civilizations and they were/are also known as Soraya (old Persia) or Subaru (Japan).
The Pleiades is an open cluster with about 1,000 stars at about 440 light years but only the brightest are visible at naked eye, even in light polluted skies; but in a dark sky and viewed through binoculars it is a truly amazing sight. They will be gravitationally bound for another 250 million and by then it will disperse in Orion’s constellation.
Shot at Santa Susana, Portugal on 01.Oct.2023 and 18.Jan.2023.
Technical details:
LUM: 178 x 180s (8h54)
RGB: 105 x 180s (5h15)
SW EQ6-R Pro | TS Optics Triplet APO 800/115 | TS Optics TSFLAT2 0.79x | QHYCCD 268M | Optolong LRGB | RBFocus Gaius-S | RBFocus Myrrdin 2.3
Acquisition: N.I.N.A. | Processing: Pixinsight