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Basudeb Chakrabarti
Pokhriabong, India
11/06/2021
03:00 am

Equipment Details:

Nikon D5300, SGP, Red Cat 51, L-Pro filter (My setup)
Nikon D5600, I-Optron Smart Eq Pro, Red Cat 51 (Goutam's Setup)

Post-processing Details:

My Data: 60 Sec X 60 Subs
Goutams Data: 30 Sec X 100 Subs
Total Integration Time: 1 hr 50 min
Stacked in DSS, Post Processed in Pix Insight & Photoshop

Image Details:

Seven Sisters in the muddy cosmic field
The night was vey chilling & the sky was beautiful. We witnessed rising & setting of the seven sisters. The Pleiades are an example of an open star cluster — a group of stars that were all born around the same time from a gigantic cloud of gas and dust. The brightest stars in the formation glow a hot blue and formed within the last 100 million years. They are extremely luminous and will burn out quickly, with life spans of only a few hundred million years, much shorter than the billions of years our sun will enjoy.
Author: Basudeb Chakrabarti & Goutam Dey