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Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters (also known as Messier 45), is an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus and is approximately 380 light years from Earth. This image was captured using QHY8L cooled CCD camera attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The image comprises 6 x 600s exposures, stacked and processed using Nebulosity 3 and Photoshop CS6.
Sony FE 100-400mm GM -- Taken in Rockville, Md.
~200 base exposures, 50 dark exposures, 40 light exposures. I'd love to take a shot at capturing this beauty in a dark area. In either case, I think I'm going to ask my wife for a tracker for my birthday.
Altair 294c
60x60s, 45x120s
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Photoshop
The Pleiades, known as the Seven Sisters, Subaru or Messier 45 (M45), is an open star cluster in the Taurus constellation. It lies relatively close to us at ~439 light-years away from Earth. This cluster consists of many stars; its brightest shine vibrantly in our sky and is easily recognizable.
Astronomically, the Pleiades spans ~12 light-years and is about 100 million years old—young in stellar terms as dinosaurs went extinct ~45 million years before this cluster began to shine. One of the coolest things about the Pleiades is that it is a reflection nebula. Glowing clouds surround the stars due to dust reflecting the blue light of the bright, young stars.
Easily visible in the winter sky, the Pleiades are worth looking at with your naked eye, binoculars, or telescope.
Equipment:
SkyWatcher EQ6-R
Nikkor 500mm f/4 P AI-S at f/5.6
Sony a7rIII (unmodified)
ZWO 30mm Guide Scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3
51 x 120-second exposures for 1 hour, 42 exposure time.
4 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bias frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
PixInsight
Photoshop
Lightroom
My a7rIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 lens were mounted to my SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount using a vixen rail. The guidescope/camera was fixed to the front of the rail. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 1600 at f/5.6. I took 120-second exposures using PHD2 with my guidescope to keep tracking accurately. I brought the lights/darks/flats/bias frames into PixInsight for stacking and aligning and then used: STF, Cropping, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator, and then the galaxy was separated from the stars using StarXterminator, and both files processed and stretched separately and then recombined using PixelMath. That file was brought into Lightroom for Metadata and EXIF tags, light post-processing, and cropping. I used Photoshop to sharpen the final image.
The Pleiades, Messier 45 or ‘Seven Sisters’…
If you’ve ever looked up at the stars between autumn and spring and seen a little cluster of them grouped together, it was probably these…
440 light years away, these stars are travelling through a massive cloud of gas that’s drifting around our galaxy, and they’re lighting it up like a torch on a misty night…
If you have a couple of minutes and would like to see my video on these stars, you can find it here: youtu.be/-nOL5PLKjMg
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus
A well known little star cluster visible in our northern skies called the Pleiades, aka the Seven Sisters, could well be the oldest story ever told. Many ancient cultures have stories of the Pleiades that have carried on into the modern world.
And modern astronomy and photography shows that there is extensive dust throughout the galaxy and surrounding the Pleiades which happen to be passing through this interstellar medium and reflecting their beautiful blue star light off the dust.
My photo is a meeting of the ancient and modern worlds.
Captured using a Canon Ra with Sigma 135mm lens, f/2, ISO 1600. 320 X 30 seconds tracked exposures.
الثريا هي عنقود نجمي يتألف من حوالي ٥٠٠ نجم و يقع في كوكبة الثور و على بعد ٤٤٠ سنة ضوئية. و كان العرب يستخدمونها في قياس حدة البصر، حيث ممكن رؤية ستة او سبعة نجوم منها بالعين المجردة. و كما تعد الثريا، سديم انعكاسي وذلك لوجود سحب من الغبار تعكس ضوء النجوم الساخنةالمحيطة لتضيئ باللون الازرق. و تكون النجوم الزرقاء اكثر سخونة من باقي النجوم حيث انها اسخن من الشمس بعدة اضعاف. Pleiades M45 or the “Seven sisters” is an open star cluster containing about 500 stars in the constellation Taurus. Six or Seven of these stars can be seen by the naked eye. The blue clouds around stars are called Reflection nebulae. They are composed of interstellar dust that reflect the light of the nearby extremely hot blue stars which are hotter than our Sun. Its distance from Earth is around 440 light year. Gear Setup: WO 73 Zenithstar, iOptron GEM 45 Guided by ZWO Mini guide scope, No filter, ZWO 533MC @ -10. Captured by Sharpcap pro, APT, PHD2, stacked & Calibrated in APP, Processed i PI. Total integration is 2 hours, 60 x 120sec subs. For more image details, visit my astrobin page: www.astrobin.com/full/bvqhk2/0/
Durante o XII EPA - Encontro Paraibano de Astrofotografia
Data - 14/11/2025
Hora - 20:00 ~ 21:42 local (-3 UTC)
Local - Matureia, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 3
Telescopio - SW Evo Star 72ED
Montagem - HEQ5 PRO
Câmera - ASI 183 MC Pro + IR UV CUT
Guider - SW 9 x 50 + ASI 120MC
Gain - 120
Lights - 19 x 300s (95 min)
Darks - Biases
Temperatura do sensor 0°C
Software Captura - ASIAIR
Softwares Processamento - PixInsight/RC Astro/PhotoShop
The Pleiades star cluster in the centre contains several bright stars, including Atlas, Merope, Maia, Electra and Alcyone.
Durante o IX EPA - Encontro Paraibano de Astrofotografia
Data - 27/08/2022
Hora - 00:58~01:38 local (-3 UTC)
Local - Matureia, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 3
Lente - Minolta 17-35 F2.5 @17mm F4
Montagem - Tripe Fixo
Câmera - Sony A99V
ISO - 3200
Light - 27 x 15s
Softwares Processamento - Sequator/PIX/PS
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Here is my latest version of the stunning Pleiades Star Cluster in the constellation Taurus.
This is a spectacular deep-sky target to photograph using ANY camera. To achieve a result like this, I recommend escaping the perpetual glare of the city to a dark sky spot.
While I recently captured the Pleiades using a new telescope from the backyard - THIS version was taken back in 2021 using a smaller version of that scope (RedCat 71).
The image includes 4.5 hours of total exposure time (88 x 3-minutes) using a dedicated astronomy camera from a dark sky (Bortle 3) location.
Camera: bit.ly/3zuuEvO
Telescope: bit.ly/3TSkGvG
Mount: amzn.to/3PrgVdP
Filter: None!
Also known as M45, the Seven Sisters, Seven Stars, SED, Matariki (New Zealand Maori), Subaru (Japan), or Bitang Skora (Borneo Bidayuh) is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters, and is probably the best known, and is certainly the most obvious to the naked eye.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue stars which have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternate name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium that the stars are currently passing through. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will have dispersed due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.
Cannon EOS 450D unmod , Sigma 120-400mm F4.5/5.6 APO
5 min x 5 light frames & 5 min x 3 dark frames
Details: photos at 300mm, f/5.6, ISO 1600 Processed: Deep Sky Stacker, Photoshop CS3
Date: 26/10/2008
Len: Samyang 135mm f/2.0
Foreground: 1 frame at 240 second shutter, ISO 800, f2.8, 135mm, LENR
Stars: 1 frame at 30 second shutter, ISO 800, f2.8, 135mm, Tiffen Double Fog 3, LENR
Post Processing: Capture One for RAW development and editing, ON1 Photo RAW for composition
M45 Pleiades open star cluster and reflection nebula in the constellation of Taurus.
Location:02-02-25 St Helens, UK, Bortle 7, No Moon.
Acquisition:140x 180s Astronomik UV-IR cut calibrated with Biases, Darks and Flats. Total Integration 7 hours.
Equipment: Altair 60 EDF, 1x Flat60; ZWO AM5, ASI2600MCpro, EAF; Astronomik UV-IR cut.
Guiding:Altair MG32mini with ZWO ASI120MMmini.
Software:NINA, PHD2.
Processing:Siril, Starnet++, Graxpert, Affinity Photo 2 with NXT plug-in.
38 x 20s tracked with Pentax Astrotracer (O-GPS2) + 10 Darks, assembled by Sequator. Cokin Clearsky filter
This open star cluster is called Seven sisters or Al-Thuraya in Arab culture. It composed of hot blue young stars that surrounded by a reflection nebula that appears as a luminous gas nebula due to reflection of those star’s light. It is the nearest object to Earth among Messier objects. Its distance is 444 ly from Earth. Gear setup: iOptron 45 GEM, WO Zenithstar 71 f/5.9, Optolong CLS filter, ZWO mini Guide scope 50mm, ZWO 120MM-S, ZWO 294mc cooled @ -5 degree, Total itegration of 2 hrs & 33 min, 51 x 180 sec, 20 Darks, 20 Flats, 20 Bias, Taken from sky Bortle 4. Acquisition by APT, Guided by PHD2, Stacked by DSS, Processed by PS 2020 CC.
Takahashi FSQ 106 ED 530mm f/5
ASA DDM60 Mount
5x 20sec + 1x 100sec Canon 5D Mk III ISO 800
Photoshop CC
Venus edging towards the Pleiades cluster.
Shot from London on the 31st March 2020.
30X20 seconds stacked in Maxim DL and processed in Photoshop CC.
Canon EOS 6D 300mm
The Pleiades (M45), is an open star cluster dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last hundred million years and surrounded by dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around stars.
74x300sec ISO1600, taken over 3 nights with calibration frames for each session. I calibrated 3 separate batches of images then registered and stacked all the frames.
Nikon D810 (unmodded)
WO ZS61 & Flattener
Skywatcher 2" Light pollution filter
AZ-EQ6 mount
Primaluce Labs sesto senso auto focuser & custom adaptor
60mm 365astronomy guidescope
QHY5-L-II mono guide camera
Polemaster
Astrozap dew heaters
Software, SGPro, PHD2, Pixinsight, Photoshop & Lightroom
First attempt to show nebulosity. Shows up much better on original on 27 inch monitor. Wondering if there'd be better nebulosity with fewer light frames. More post processing play needed.
Canon EOS-R with Sigma 150-600 C at 361mm
Sky Watcher Adventurer Pro + BackyardEOS,
Unguided. Bortle 4/5 sky, but with almost full moon.
Stacked in DSS - 50 Lights only
Tweaked in GIMP
William Optics Z61
Canon Rebel SL2
ioptron skyguider pro
Astronomik CLS filter
90 x 45s (1 hr. 7 min. total) @ 800 ISO
DSS + Photoshop + Lightroom
Durante o X EPA - Encontro Paraibano de Astrofotografia
Data - 10/11/2023
Hora - 19:49 ~ 21:59 local (-3 UTC)
Local - Matureia, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 3
Telescopio - Lente Camon 200mm F2.8 L USM @F4
Montagem - AZ GTI
Câmera - Canon T3i astromodificada
Guider - SVBony + ASI 120MC
ISO - 1600
Light - 60 x 120s (120 min)
Darks - Biases
Temperatura do sensor 19°C
Software Captura - ASIAIR
Softwares Processamento - PIX/PS
Some women in Mycenaean society were powerful religious officials and enjoyed a certain amount of autonomy. This tablet concerns a legal dispute between Eritha (e-ri-ta), chief priestess of the Sphagianes cult precinct, and the local community over the tax status of property belonging to the deity worshipped there.
Named on another tablet is the female landowner Karpathia, who held the keys to the sanctuary and its treasury. It has raised questions among modern scholars about the economic role of sanctuaries and of local communities during the palatial period. It also provides valuable insights concerning the role of women as members of the Mycenaean elite.
On the first day of the 1939 excavation in search of Pylos, archaeologists found clay tablets with Linear B inscriptions that identified the ancient site's long-sought location. Thirteen years later, scholars cracked the code, deciphering the script as the earliest written form of the Greek language.
More than a thousand rectangular and leaf-shaped tablets from Pylos register the economic, bureaucratic, and religious activities of the Palace of Nestor and the districts in its orbit. Lists of commodities, land surveys, and over seven hundred named individuals-including bronzesmiths, shepherds, soldiers, textile workers, and possibly enslaved foreigners— document the workings of a Mycenaean state. Fortuitously, the fire that burned down the palace baked the inscribed clay, preserving these valuable records for posterity.
Linear B script, used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, consists of roughly two hundred signs. Syllabograms represent sounds as syllables, while logograms symbolize things.
Mycenaean, about 1180 BCE. Clay. From Pylos, Palace of Nestor, Archives Complex.
Hellenic National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece (P12579, P23341)
This is a couple of data sets taken with two different telescopes. One being my Williams optics zenithstar 71mm and the other my skywatcher quattro 8s. Both taken with a canon 60da. Mount is an NEQ6.I guided the data from the wozs71 with a skywatcher synguider. 28 minutes of exposure in all. Processed in pixinsight and lightroom 4.
M45 The Pleiades is also known as the Seven Sisters is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. It is among the star clusters nearest to Earth, it is the nearest Messier object to Earth, and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue and luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Reflection nebulae around the brightest stars were once thought to be leftover material from their formation, but are now considered likely to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium through which the stars are currently passing.
Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades were 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.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com
Lum 79 x 600s
Red 38 x 180s
Green 36 x 180s
Blue 36 x 180s
18 Hours 30 mins in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C
Image Scale: 2.08
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik Lum,Red,Green,Blue
Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition: Voyager
Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
The Seven Sisters
While out shooting Comet Lovejoy, I spent some time imaging Pleiades.
Sony A7S, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L, EQ Tracker. Each image was ISO1600, f/3.2, 2 minutes
12 Light Frames, 16 Dark Frames, 16 Flat Frames all stacked and processed in Nebulosity 3
During the cold winter months stargazers in the northern hemisphere are treated to a beautiful open star cluster called The Pleiades. It is also known as the Seven Sisters and Maia Nebula while its official designations are M45 and Melotte 22. This beautiful cluster is not reserved only for star gazers in the northern latitudes as it is visible as far south as the southern tip of South America.
Hot blue stars formed within the last 100 million years dominate this cluster. Astronomers estimate that in about 250 million years tidal interactions will tear it apart and during that time its normal direction of movement will have carried it from the constellation Taurus into neighboring Orion.
This bright star cluster has been mentioned in the literature of most cultures and therefore has many names – the Starry Seven, the Net of Stars, the Seven Virgins, the Daughters of Pleione, the Stars of Athyr and the Little Eyes just to name a few.
Date:Sept 22 & Nov 25, 2014
Telescope:William Optics Star71
Mount:GCEM DX (Sept22) / AP Mach 1 (Nov25)
Camera:Atik 460ex
Filters:Astrodon LRGB Gen2
Exposures:L:R:G:B = 96m:42m:42m:42m (RGB bin 2x2)
Not sure what shower this was. In October probably the Leonids...??? Geminids, I believe, are in December...?