M45 The Pliedies

Object: M45Type: Open Cluster
Distance: 380Light Years (Approx)
Constellation: Taurus

Date: 27th October 08

Equipment: William Optics Megrez 90 Canon EOS 40D

Subframes: 6 x 30 second exposures unguided at ISO800 and 1 x 3.5 Minute Autoguided exposure again at 800 ISO

Processed: No darks or flats were captured. Processed in Images Plus 2.0 with a Moderate non linear stretch or DDP. 7 Iterations on a adaptive Richardson Lucy deconvolution filter.

Notes: The Pleiades nebulae are blue-colored, which indicates that they are reflection nebulae, reflecting the light of the bright stars situated near (or within) them.

Back In Time: As the light left back in 1627, back on earth a Dutch ship sighted the coast of southern Australia, while the English were colonising the island of Barbados. An earthquake devastated southern Italy and astronomer Johannes Keppler published his laws on planetary motion The Rudolphine Times