M45 the Seven Sisters Pleiades

M14 a nice glober star cluster. This was the first picture taken. It is five 40 sec. exposures. No dark frames or flats taken June 11th. 2004

M22 star cluster, fist night, five 40 second exposures, no darks. June 11th, 2004

M3 globar star cluster, RC12.5 8, 45 sec. exposures.

M13 global cluster NGC 6205, RC12.5. 10, 30 sec. exposures with ST8E, CW8 AstroDon filters, in LRGB, process with Photoshop and MaximDL.

The Pleiades, also known as Messier 45 (M45), are among those objects which are known since the earliest times. At least 6 member stars are visible to the naked eye, while under moderate conditions this number increases to 9, and under clear dark skies jumps up to more than a dozen (Vehrenberg, in his Atlas of Deep Sky Splendors, mentions that in 1579, well before the invention of the telescope, astronomer Moestlin has correctly drawn 11 Pleiades stars, while Kepler quotes observations of up to 14).

First Light Unguided.

First Light, Unguided.

M3 is one of the most outstanding globular clusters, containing an estimated half million stars. At a distance of about 33,900 light years, it is further away than the center of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, but still shines at magnitude 6.2, as its absolute magnitude is about -8.93, corresponding to a luminosity of about 300,000 times that of our sun