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✨ Constellation: Taurus
🚀 Distance: 444 Light Years
The Pleiades are an asterism, or pattern of stars, as well as an open star cluster, made up of more than 1,000 stars. Also known as the "Seven Sisters" and Messier 45, they derive their English name from a Greek legend in which the stars represent the daughters of the titan Atlas. Pleiades also translates to the Japanese word Subaru, which is also the name of a popular Japanese automaker. The star cluster was given its designation 45 by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771 and added to his catalog of 110 deep sky objects. This catalog is one of the most used and popular among amateur astronomers.
🔭 Equipment: iOptron CEM60 Center Balanced Equatorial Mount, ZWO ASIAir Plus Acquisition and Power Management Computer, Celestron Rowe-Ackermann 8″ Astrograph, ZWO ASI224MC One-Shot Color USB3 Planetary/Guiding Camera, ZWO EAF Electronic Focusing Motor, ZWO f/5 30mm Mini Guide Scope
📅 Session: December 13, 2021
📸 Exposure: RGB Stars (95 x 30s / 100 x 60s frames using Optolong L-Pro 2" filter)
💻 Software: Astro Pixel Processor, Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy, Pixinsight, PHD2 Guiding
