Object Information
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Messier 45
"The Seven Sisters"

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Image Acquisition/Processing Information
Designation: M45
Constellation: Taurus
Object Type: Open Cluster
Object Name: Pleiades or Seven Sisters
Year of Discovery antiquity
Telescope: Takahashi FS-60C refractor
CCD Camera: QSI 583ws
Mount: Takahashi EM-200
Filters: AstroDon LRGB filters
Date: September 29, 30, October 20, 21, 22, 2009
Location: Ball Ground, GA
Luminance and Blue
Subexposures:
36 - 5 minute subexposures
Red and Green Subexposures: 24 - 5 minute subexposures
Total Exposure Time 10.0 hours
Image Processing Software: CCDStack, Photoshop CS3