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This is the Velvet Star Cluster! 💜💜💜
Not only does this photo contain a large cluster of around 500 stars, but it also contains a beautiful planetary nebula named NGC 2438! There might even be a tail of stars due to gravitational interactions in the past 💫💫💫
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on September 17th, 2020 at 9:22 UTC.
This is the Velvet Star Cluster! 💜💜💜
Not only does this photo contain a large cluster of around 500 stars, but it also contains a beautiful planetary nebula named NGC 2438! There might even be a tail of stars due to gravitational interactions in the past 💫💫💫
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on September 17th, 2020 at 9:22 UTC.
Photo of the Pleiades (Messier 45) I took to test my new telescope. This is an open cluster of stars situated about 440 light years from earth, the brighter stars of the cluster are visible with the naked eye (around 5 to 10 stars visible depending of the light pollution, weather and eye accommodation do darkness). Unfortunately, the nebulosity, which I composed of dust clouds reflecting the light from the bright stars, is only visible in photos or with (relatively) large telescope. The cluster is about 100 million years old which is young (for an astronomical object), the more visible stars are hot blue giants, but many other, less visible, stars are present in the cluster. This cluster due to its high visibility has taken an important place in many cultures and mythologies.
(as a fun fact the name of M45 in Japanese is Subaru, and yes the car brand dose gets its name for this star cluster (which explains the logo of the brand))
Perseus double cluster, had still some time left at the end of the night after the main sequence of photos and before dawn so I took the opportunity to capture about 25 minutes of photos of the double cluster. This is a pair of open clusters of stars (NGC 884 left and NGC 869 right), both are composed mostly of young blue giants and a few red giants in NGC 884. Both clusters have most likely formed from a single gas cloud and are only separated by a few hundred light years. This pair of cluster is relatively bright and can be viewed with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars in dark locations, in those cases, the clusters appear as nebulous region, with a couple of stars resolved with binoculars.