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Photographer:

Filippo Galati

Location of Photo:

Sicily (Italy)

Date/Time of photo:

01/28/2022

Equipment:

Sony ILCE-7M3 + Sigma 100-400 @400mm

Description:

The Pleiades Also known as the seven sisters (from Greek mythology), the Pleiades are an open star cluster (it contains more than a thousand of them) made up of young, hot, very bright stars that formed about 100 million years ago and are 440 light years away from us. They are surrounded by a complex system of reflection nebulae, the brightest being the one around the star Merope. Sony ILCE-7M3 + Sigma 100-400 @400mm Mount: Skywatcher SA Lights: 25x50 f/7.1 ISO 2000 (10 dark) Processing: DeepSkyStacker, ImagePlus, Photoshop

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