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Moon & Pleiades
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On April 1st, 2025, between 20:45 and 23:45 (UTC), our moon passed in front of the Pleiades. Of course, our skies were completely cloudy, so I wasn’t able to capture the actual event, but due to the brightness of the moon compared to M45, creating a nice capture would have been complicated anyway.

Therefore, I used archive material (my M45 capture from November 2024 and the Moon from January 2022), to create an artistic composition of the event.

Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da
Filter: Antlia TriBand RGB Ultra
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5 GT
Guiding: Svbony SV165 Guide Scope with ZWO ASI 224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro

Integration time: 6hrs 20min

Full version and print available at: https://adfr.io/thoughts/20250402_moon_passing_pleiades

#astrophotography #astrophoto #astrophotographer #deepsky #deepskyphotography #deepskyobject #deepskyastrophotography #moon #pleiades #plejaden #mond

Ein ungewöhnliches #Himmelsschauspiel - für Besitzer von Ferngläsern und Teleobjektiven; für das bloße Auge ist der Mond schon zu hell geworden - wird sich in den kommenden drei Stunden auch in der sehr klaren Bochumer Nacht zeigen: Während er im Westen immer tiefer sinkt, nähert sich der #Mond dem Sternhaufen der #Plejaden, um schließlich ziemlich genau um Mitternacht genau vor ihnen zu stehen. Und wenn er um 1 Uhr untergeht, hat er den Sternhaufen schon wieder fast hinter sich gelassen.

The Seven Sisters ============== Located about 444 light years from earth, in the constellation of Taurus, the Plejades are among the closest star clusters to our sun and probably the most obvious one in the night sky, clearly visible to the naked eye and a great sight through binoculars. The cluster is visually dominated by seven hot blue stars, formed within the last 100 million years, moving together through a dust cloud in the interstellar medium, thus causing the famous blue reflection nebulae around them. It’s estimated that the cluster will probably survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood. Scope: #Askar 103APO Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer Camera: @canondeutschland EOS 6Da Filter: #Antlia Tri-Band RGB Ultra Mount: @sky_watcher_official AZ-EQ5-GT Guiding: @svbonyastronomy SV165 with @zwoasi 224MC Controller: @zwoasi ASIAir Pro Integration time: 6hrs 20min Full version and print available at: https://adfr.io/astro/20241130_m45 #astrophotography #astrophoto #astrophotographer #deepsky #deepskyphotography #deepskyobject #deepskyastrophotography #pleiades #plejaden #sevensisters
🌌✨ The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, shining bright in the vast expanse of space.

📅 January 2024

- Canon 250D (not astromodified)
- Samyang 135mm F2 @ F2.0
- SWSA2i
- ISO 400, 105x120s
- Siril, PS

#Plejaden #pleiades #Sternenhaufen #Astrofotografie #astrophotography #astro #Himmelsbeobachtung #KosmischeSchönheit #Sterne #WunderDesUniversums #Nachthimmel #nightsky #Sternbilder #sevensisters #canonphotography #canon #skywatcher