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Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Quite evident are the blue reflection nebulae that surround the brighter cluster stars.

Esprit 100mm APO refractor with Optolong L (IR/UV cut) filter and Canon 6Da. Combination of 30, 240, 360 and 600 second exposures. Total 10hr30m on 13+21 october and 6 november 2015. Average SQM:20.7

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Date Taken on 18 April 2016, 12:43
Source M 45 Blue and brown Cirrus. V4 DSLR Image (Explore)
Author Kees Scherer from Tomar, Portugal
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cirrus, messier, 45, plejades, pleiades, pleijaden, zevengesternte, seven, sisters, astrometrydotnet:id=nova1523844, astrometrydotnet:status=solved, astro, astrophotography, universe, space, public, domain
Camera location39° 36′ 03.33″ N, 8° 22′ 48.59″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by kees scherer at https://flickr.com/photos/50769593@N00/26435579971. It was reviewed on 3 August 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-zero.

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