Pleiades Seven Sisters or Hen with Chicks pictures by astronomical telescope

If there is a beautiful view seen by the naked eye in astronomy, the Pleiades are certainly the ones, located approximately 400 light-years from us.

Pleiades is one of the most beautiful scenery in astronomy: the dispersion stars of Pleiades or Seven Sisters. In Romania (my country), is known as Hen with chicks. The main stars of the Pleiades form a small dipper that is much richer than the Hyades, and are most easily recognized of all the stars in the heaven.
Almost every culture throughout history, imagined this cluster as something delicate, like a group of virgins, a flock of doves, or a hen and chicks. This swarm is best known in Greek as the Seven Sisters.

The Pleiades were important in legends, poetry, and even as a timekeeping throughout history.
Pleiades are located on the shoulder of the imaginary Taurus constellation.

Anyone can look at the Pleiades with binoculars or a small telescope under dark skies. It is important, however, to look through a wide field telescope to fit the entire stellar group in the image.

Telescope: Celestron 8 inch Newtonian
C5/EQ5 motorized mount
Camera: Nikon D80 ring T
Eyepiece: no (focal)
Filter: no
Date: October 21, 2012
Time: 05:00
Mode: manual
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 10 sec
Location: Baia Mare, Romania

Articles about Pleiades:
Pleiades star group arrangement. Images through the telescope.
Video Pleiades (Messier 45 or M45), by astronomical telescope
The Pleiades astronomical images
My first Pleiades

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Pleiades star group arrangement. Images through the telescope.

Group of stars in the Pleiades in the center is about 8 light years, and the outer ones, about 43 light years. It contains more than 1,000  confirmed statistical stars, although this number excludes unresolved binary stars. Group contains young stars, hot, blue, and up to 14 of them can be seen with the naked eye. Arrangement of the brightest stars, is somewhat similar to Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. The total mass contained in the group is estimated of about 800 solar masses.

Video of these captures, can be viewed here: Video Pleiades (Messier 45 or M45), by astronomical telescope .

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Video Pleiades (Messier 45 or M45), by astronomical telescope

Pleiades, or "the seven sisters", or "hen with chicks" (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing stars of type B middle-aged, located in the constellation Taurus. It is among the closest groups of stars to Earth and is most obvious, seen with the naked eye in the night sky.

Cluster, is dominated by hot blue and very bright stars that were formed in the last 100 million years.

Pleiades are seen in winter on northern hemisphere and in summer on southern hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures around the world.

This video was made ​​by a camera with a light sensitivity of 3 lux, better than the Sony CX105 wich is of 5 lux. It is edited for a better look. I increased clarity and other levels only slightly.



Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: CelestronC8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: SonyCX130 at 2x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 200x
Filter: no
Date: 29/01/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10

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The Pleiades astronomical images

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Edit: Cosmin Sandu
Telescope: C8-N (Celestron Newtonian reflector)
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Eyepiece: No (focal image)
Camera: Nikon D80 DSLR ,Nikon T Ring
Exposure time 2 sec, ISO 1600, F1
Filter: No
Date: 12/02/2011
Time: 21:30
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
         Returning to an earlier post with the Pleiades (or hen with chicks) because a friend of mine in Bucharest edited this picture that he took it from my blog. I thought it was interesting what he did, although the photo blog has a lower resolution than the original. I think I will work with him because he puts passion in editing astronomy photos, and I do not have time because of the large volume of astro-videos that I make through the telescope.I'll let him to edit some of my photos.

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My first Pleiades

Pleiades 12.02.2011 21:36 Celestron newtonian reflector 8",Nikon D80, exposure time 1.3 sec,ISO 1600,F1-click to enlarge

Pleiades 12.02.2011 21:31 Celestron newtonian reflector 8",Nikon D80, exposure time 1/1,,ISO HI 10,F1-click to enlarge

Pleiades 12.02.2011 21:32 Celestron newtonian reflector 8",Nikon D80, exposure time 2 sec,ISO 1600,F1-click to enlarge

Pleiades 12.02.2011 21:36 Celestron newtonian reflector 8",Nikon D80, exposure time 1.3 sec,ISO 1600,F1-click to enlarge

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Telescop: C8-N (reflector celestron newtonian)
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Eyepiece: No
Camera: Nikon D80 T Nikon
Filter: nu
Date: 12.02.2011
Time:21:30
Location: Baia Mare,Romania
      The pictures are made with the specifications above.Only first image is original.The others are edited in FastStone:levels,gammma,contrasts,etc.These are my first Pleiade pictures through me 8" telescope so please don't be too hard with me.

Pleiades closer 12.02.2011 21:26 Celestron newtonian reflector 8",Nikon D80,Hyperion 10mm eyepiece, exposure time 1/2,ISO HI 10,F1

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