Guillermo_Scheidereiter
M45, Pléyades
This is a very modest photograph of M45. It's a stack of photographs that make up an integration lasting about 37 minutes (I also took calibration shots, darks, flats, and bias shots). I took the photographs with my Nikon D5600 camera and my vintage 135mm Nikon lens from the late 1970s, on the Sky-Watcher EQ3 equatorial mount. Although I took the photos at the end of December 2024, at the beginning of the Argentine summer, the very basic processing was done now. For this, I used Siril, GraXpert, and Gimp.
Daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea nymph Pleione in Greek mythology, the Pleiades have been part of other mythologies and numerous references that permeate human culture. Among these, perhaps the most emblematic is Homer's mention of this asterism in Book XVIII of the Iliad, when Hephaestus makes a shield for Achilles in the battles of the Trojan War:
"Hizo lo primero de todo un escudo grande y fuerte, de variada labor, con triple cenefa brillante y reluciente, provisto de una abrazadera de plata. Cinco capas tenía el escudo, y en la superior grabó el dios muchas artísticas figuras, con sabia inteligencia.
Allí puso la tierra, el cielo, el mar, el sol infatigable y la luna llena; allí, las estrellas que el cielo coronan, las Pléyades, las Híades, el robusto Orión y la Osa, llamada por sobrenombre el Carro, la cual gira siempre en el mismo sitio, mira a Orión y es la única que deja de bañarse en el Océano."
Canto XVIII, La Ilíada, Homero, fragmento.
M45, Pléyades
This is a very modest photograph of M45. It's a stack of photographs that make up an integration lasting about 37 minutes (I also took calibration shots, darks, flats, and bias shots). I took the photographs with my Nikon D5600 camera and my vintage 135mm Nikon lens from the late 1970s, on the Sky-Watcher EQ3 equatorial mount. Although I took the photos at the end of December 2024, at the beginning of the Argentine summer, the very basic processing was done now. For this, I used Siril, GraXpert, and Gimp.
Daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea nymph Pleione in Greek mythology, the Pleiades have been part of other mythologies and numerous references that permeate human culture. Among these, perhaps the most emblematic is Homer's mention of this asterism in Book XVIII of the Iliad, when Hephaestus makes a shield for Achilles in the battles of the Trojan War:
"Hizo lo primero de todo un escudo grande y fuerte, de variada labor, con triple cenefa brillante y reluciente, provisto de una abrazadera de plata. Cinco capas tenía el escudo, y en la superior grabó el dios muchas artísticas figuras, con sabia inteligencia.
Allí puso la tierra, el cielo, el mar, el sol infatigable y la luna llena; allí, las estrellas que el cielo coronan, las Pléyades, las Híades, el robusto Orión y la Osa, llamada por sobrenombre el Carro, la cual gira siempre en el mismo sitio, mira a Orión y es la única que deja de bañarse en el Océano."
Canto XVIII, La Ilíada, Homero, fragmento.