File:The Pleiades Star Cluster (48824393137).jpg

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Here is the famous Pleiades Star Cluster. It is often referred to as the Seven Sisters or Messier 45. It is one of the nearest star clusters to us at a distance of 444 light-years, and it is easily visible in the night sky even in heavy light pollution. The stars in the cluster are passing through an area filled with interstellar dust, so that's why you see the "wispiness," or nebulosity in the image here.

This image is a stacked version of 30 one-minute exposures with a Celestron 8-inch Rowe-Ackermann Telescope and an ASI 294mc color camera.

Taken at the Deerlick Astronomy Village, near Sharon, Georgia on 9-29-19.
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Author Stephen Rahn from Macon, GA, USA

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by StephenGA at https://flickr.com/photos/97839409@N00/48824393137. It was reviewed on 11 November 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-zero.

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