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Photographer:

Jared-Bowens

Location of Photo:

Northwest Missouri

Date/Time of photo:

11-21-2022

Equipment:

Orion 8 inch f3.9 newtonian astrograph, with a coma correcter. Canon 60d unmodified, autoguider orion starshoot 60mm guide scope, all on a celestron AVX mount.

Description:

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. 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 left over material from the formation of the cluster, but are now considered likely to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium through which the stars are currently passing. [9] Together with the open star cluster of the Hyades the Pleiades form the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic. Taken Northwest Missouri November 21 through 22 -2022 at the Backyard country observatory, using a Orion 8 inch f3.9 newtonian astrograph, with a coma correcter. Canon 60d unmodified, autoguider orion starshoot 60mm guide scope, all on a celestron AVX mount. stacked using deep sky stacker. Pixlinsight dynamic crop, dynamic background ext, non linear stretch in histrogram tran, NoiseXTerminator, star mask using the morphology trans for star reduction, added a luminous mask used curves, for saturation’s, Photoshop: saturations adjustments, color balance, highlights, selective color adjustments, smart sharpening.

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