Merry Christmas with Pleiades
From time to time I’ll publish some my astrophotos here. And today, for Christmas eve I’d like to present you one of my images.
Pleiades @ Primoz Cigler
Pleiades are stargroup in our local Galaxy, Milky Way. They are approximately 440 ly (light years) distant from us which is “pretty near”. They’re also known as M45 (Messier’s catalogue), Seven Sisters, Seven Stars. In the sky we can find them in the constellation of Taurus. They can be seen by naked eye as a group of seven stars but with indirectly observation we can notice that there is some blue glow around and between them. This blue glow are gasses in the universe which are illuminated by stars in the group.
Pleiades are very frequently target of astrophotographers because they are very beautiful, they cover a huge area in the sky and they are resonably bright comparing to other deep-sky objects.
I took this photo 19th January 2007 with camera Canon 350D and telescope Orion Optics 8″ @ f/4.5. The exposure was 9 times 5 minutes, which were combined and processed with Iris and Photoshop. All the setup was autoguided with SkyWathcer 80/400 and Meade LPI.
I hope that you like the image. You can leave the comment if you do. 
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