John Chumack _Observatories
M45 The Pleiades The Seven Sisters Open Star Cluster in Taurus
Everyone’s favorite Cluster!!!
M45 The Pleiades aka "The Seven Sisters" Open Star Cluster in Taurus. Easily visible to the unaided Eye, even from the city, this bright cluster is an amazing view in Binoculars or a small wide angle telescope. M45 is one of the nearest Galactic Open Clusters, sitting about 444 light years away, and shining at Magnitude 1.6.
I did also pick up a faint background Edge on spiral galaxy, look to the upper left of Electra to spot it!
M45 is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
Dust that forms a faint blue reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing.
New Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula.
Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.
Greek Mythology states that Mighty Atlas (son of a Titan) and his wife Pleione had 7 Incredibly beautiful Daughters, Atlas place his Seven daughters in the heavens to protect them from Mortal men! And to this day Orion the hunter who is in love with several of the Sisters follows them around the sky.
Modified Canon Rebel Xsi DSLR & 5.5 inch Diameter Vixen Newtonian Reflector scope, ISO 1600, for a 76 minute exposure at my Observatories in JBSPO in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
M45 The Pleiades The Seven Sisters Open Star Cluster in Taurus
Everyone’s favorite Cluster!!!
M45 The Pleiades aka "The Seven Sisters" Open Star Cluster in Taurus. Easily visible to the unaided Eye, even from the city, this bright cluster is an amazing view in Binoculars or a small wide angle telescope. M45 is one of the nearest Galactic Open Clusters, sitting about 444 light years away, and shining at Magnitude 1.6.
I did also pick up a faint background Edge on spiral galaxy, look to the upper left of Electra to spot it!
M45 is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
Dust that forms a faint blue reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing.
New Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula.
Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.
Greek Mythology states that Mighty Atlas (son of a Titan) and his wife Pleione had 7 Incredibly beautiful Daughters, Atlas place his Seven daughters in the heavens to protect them from Mortal men! And to this day Orion the hunter who is in love with several of the Sisters follows them around the sky.
Modified Canon Rebel Xsi DSLR & 5.5 inch Diameter Vixen Newtonian Reflector scope, ISO 1600, for a 76 minute exposure at my Observatories in JBSPO in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Best Regards,
John Chumack