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Picture No 7. Courtesy of Maarten de Vries.
Year: 2002

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Pleiades

This picture of the Pleiades star cluster (M45) was taken on September 2002 from Knockban near Munlochy using a Pentax K1000 at the prime focus of a Helios Startravel 102 on a dual axis driven EQ3/2 mount. The focal ratio of the setup was f/5 and the exposure was 5 minutes on Kodak 200 asa film.
Picture added on 16 January 2005.

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Hi Maarten, Amazing how you can track old friends on the Internet!
You might be interested to know that when we first see Pleiades in the southern skies it is the Maori festival of Matariki - which is the traditional Maori New Year. Here is a link about it:
http://www.taitokerau.co.nz/matariki.htm
Added by Helen Gibbs on 15 December 2005.

Hi Helen! nice of you to send a comment and thanks for the link, hope all is well in NZ. We recently had a presentation about the southern sky, and I must admit that there you're in an enviable location for watching the skies!
Added by Maarten on 18 December 2005.

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