Pleiades, open cluster in Taurus
The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.
distance: 440 ly
apparent magnitude: 1.6
apparent size: 110 arcmin
known pre-historically in many cultures: Krittika, Sureyya, Perwin, Ülker, Tianquiztl, Subaru
17x30 sec, ISO 800, 10 darks, 10 flats, no guiding
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Borg 101ED
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