Pleiades Star Cluster

Artist: Phil Hart
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A long exposure through a telescope of the Pleaides star cluster, well known as the “Seven Sisters” in the constellation ‘Taurus the Bull’.

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Marie Sharp

An instant favorite. Beautiful stars!
3rdrock

thats a stunning result phil , the merope nebulosity looks stunning , what scope did you use?
Phil Hart

thanks.. for the deep sky shots, i’m using a very nice Takahashi Epsilon 160 newtonian reflector with correcting element. focal length 530mm at f3.3. some more details for the image here:

http://www.philhart.com/gallery/Astrophotography/star_clusters/Pleiades_M45.jpg.html

i used to hate people with takahashis :-)
Tim Sanders

Seven Sisters are a beautiful site well captured…..
Tim
lorilee

INCREDIBLE!!!!!
Andrew Murrell

Ok I now know why you have great star images. the Tak is a great scope for this type of work. What mount are you using?? You have cahught the Merope nebula wonderfully
maileilani

Awesome!
LightStar

Just stunning.
Jewd

Oh my favorite constellation…wonderful image…
jskouros 16 days ago

Lovely image Phil. You’ve got a lot of the nebulosity showing through for such short subs.