M45: The Pleiades 09/2002 - Maarten de Vries

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. Maarten