Pleiades Nebula
Pleiades
Description: Bright Nebula / Open Cluster
Common Name: Pleiades / Seven Sisters
Messier Catalogue: 45
NGC: N/A
IC: N/A
Caldwell: N/A
Sharpless: N/A
Constellation: Taurus
Size: 120 Arc Minutess
Visual Magnitude: +1.50
Distance: 430 Light Years
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
ISO: 800
Video: N/A
Light Frames: 20 x 180 Seconds
Dark Frames: N/A
Bias Frames: N/A
Flat Frames: N/A
Capture Program: BackYardEOS
Stacking program: DeepSkyStacker
Post Processing: PhotoShop CS3
Date Taken: 10/10/2018
Image Type: RGB
Dark Site?: Yes
Telescope: Altair StarWave 70ED
Diameter: 70mm
Focal Length: 420mm
Reducer/Flattener?: Flattener/reducer
Mount Control: Mount Handset
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ3-2
Guided?: Yes PHD2
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