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M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster
Credit & Copyright: Antonio
Fernandez-Sanchez
Explanation: Perhaps the most famous star cluster in the sky, the Pleiades
can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted
city. Also known as the Seven
Sisters and M45,
the Pleiades
is one of the brightest
and closest open
clusters. The Pleiades
contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years
across. Quite evident in the above photograph are the blue reflection
nebulae that surround
the brighter cluster stars.
Low mass, faint, brown
dwarfs have also been
found in the
Pleiades.
Great Links:
- Mabee Observatory -
Observatory and Astronomy information of Bethel College.
- Cloudy
Nights - Great site for equipment un-biased reviews
- New Mexico
Skies - An incredible dark sky guest observatory in southern New Mexico.
- Skyhound.com
- A site by Greg Crinklaw, the author of PC-Sky and SkyTools, is an accomplished astronomer, educator, and programmer.
- Light Pollution guide for the North
Central Kansas Region and Kansas.
- Hawaiian
Starlight aims at showing to the public astronomical images obtained
with the Canada-France-Hawaii
Telescope (CFHT).
- Super Image Map of all 110 Messier
Objects from The Arcturus Observatory
web site by Cometman.
- Listing and links of all 110 Messier Objects from
APOD
(Astonomy Picture of the Day).
- The Astronomy
Picture of the Day (APOD).
- Our local Community Network ISP NCKCN.
- Search NCKAS
- Dan's Astronomy
Software Collection
- International
Dark Sky Association
- Astronomy
Clubs - A resource of Astronomy Clubs World-wide.
- The America
Association of Amateur Astronomers
- Stars
- Wonderful resource site on stars. Created by Jim Kaler, Prof. Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Illinois
- Astronomy for Kids - Astonomy for children, students, and kids of all ages. KidsAstronomy.com, part of the KidsKnowIt Network, is the absolutely free astronomy resource designed to teach children about the exciting world of outer space.
- New Scientist
- Great site for science news.
If you wish to contact us, you can email
info@nckas.org *Unless otherwise
noted all images are from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey.
This page updated:
01/11/10 09:04:31 AM
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