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The Moon and The Pleiades PDF Print E-mail
Written by keith grice   
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 20:59

On 21 February 2010 the star TYC-1800-2007-1 close to the Pleiades open star cluster, will disappear behind the dark lunar limb. Whilst our events only list stars down to magnitude +6.0, it is worth while noting that several fainter stars within the Pleiades cluster will be occulted earlier in the evening.

10 frames of the moon were taken with the Canon 40D and Stellarview 102ED Refractor at ISO100 with exposure time of 1/160th sec. Aligned, stacked and processed with Nebulosity.
3 frames of M45 taken at ISO400 with exposure time of 60 seconds. Aligned, stacked and DDP processing with ImagesPlus.
Moon and M45 images merged in Photoshop by Richard Green. 2010

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