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Pleiades
M45
Object
Type Open Cluster
Constellation Taurus
Distance 440 ly
Magnitude 1.6
Angular Size 110 arc min
Size 12 ly
More Info  SEDSAPODEssay by Robert Gendler ©
Image
Date 2011-01-28
Place Little Blair Valley, Anza-Borrego Desert, CA
Exposure Data 30 Min One shoot color
ISO 1600, 6x300s
Notes Shoot in RAW, Dark subtracted
Equipment
Optics Takahashi FSQ-106N Refractor
Focal Length 530mm @f/5
Mount Astro-Physics 900GTO
Camera Canon 30D
Focuser Robo-Focus
Filters
Software CCDStack, Photoshop

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