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M45

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M45 (the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters) is a very nice large cluster of stars, well known because of it's brightness and size in the sky. There is faint blue nebulosity surrounding the stars (actually unrelated to the stars themselves, just happens to be in the same line of sight such that we see the nebulosity) but I haven't managed to capture much of that here. It is particularly difficult to capture the nebulosity in light polluted skies.
Camera:Pentax SP1000
Aperture:F/5.6
Date:January 2003
This is a web site of photography and astronomy, by Roger Groom in Western Australia. Photographic subjects include Pemberton, Dryandra Woodland Karri Forest, Cape Leeuwin, Ocean Landscapes, Kings Park, El Questro and Emma Gorge, and much more landscape photography.
Astrophotography subjects include The Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Orion Nebula, Saucepan Constellation, Southern Cross, Southern Cross and Pointers, Startrails, and much more astrophotography.
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