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2009/09/23 D.M.Conrad

Pleiades / M45 / Seven Sisters

Sedro-Woolley, Wa.

Image center RA: 03h47m 37.4s DE:+24°08' 55"
Celestial North to the left and Celesial East at the bottom of the photo.
Pleiades is a fairly close star cluster at 440 light years distant.
Located in the Constillation Tarus, it is one of the brightest clusters in the night sky.

Hutech Canon 40D,Borg 77Ach W/.85 Reducer
5 X 10min. exposures at ISO 800 with Baader FringeKiller filter
Aligned and stacked with Nebulosity
Older Mountain Instruments MI-250 tangent arm mount.
Orion ST80 guide scope with an Orion Starshoot autoguider using PHD guiding full exif


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