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A few years back while I was frequenting a different school, I was a member of an Astronomy club. We would spend the most of a clear night observing the skies, and generaly learning about astronomy. I had a great time, while it lasted. We had a 14" schmidt cassegrain, if that means anyting to you. On occasion we took photos of what we were observing, we used an old "camera" (for lack of a better term. It's more a telescope in itself, can't remeber what it was called) to take them, and we'd developed them on site. At the end of the night, we'd all go home with our own picture. Ah, good times...

This one is of the Pleiades. You may notice a bit more artifacts on this one, I must of been clumsy. It was taken on October 30th, 2002 at 9:45.

From Wikipedia:

The Pleiades (also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters) is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest to the Earth of all open clusters, probably the best known and certainly the most striking to the naked eye.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue stars, which have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud that the stars are currently passing through. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which time it will have dispersed due to gravitational interactions with the spiral arms of the galaxy and giant molecular clouds.

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A few years back while I was frequenting a different school, I was a member of an Astronomy club. We would spend the most of a clear night observing the skies, and generaly learning about astronomy. I had a great time, while it lasted. We had a 14" schmidt cassegrain, if that means anyting to you. On occasion we took photos of what we were observing, we used an old "camera" (for lack of a better term. It's more a telescope in itself, can't remeber what it was called) to take them, and we'd developed them on site. At the end of the night, we'd all go home with our own picture. Ah, good times...

This one is of the Pleiades. You may notice a bit more artifacts on this one, I must of been clumsy. It was taken on October 30th, 2002 at 9:45.

From Wikipedia:

The Pleiades (also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters) is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest to the Earth of all open clusters, probably the best known and certainly the most striking to the naked eye.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue stars, which have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud that the stars are currently passing through. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which time it will have dispersed due to gravitational interactions with the spiral arms of the galaxy and giant molecular clouds.