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Short exposure of the Pleiades, just showing the stars.

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The Pleiades in color. A very nice photo showing the reflection nebulae. Captured from Usenet. Also in Patrick Murphy's collection.

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Image of the Pleiades, M45, taken with the 0.9-m Telescope of Kitt Peak National Observatory, in 1975. At the Pleiades' distance of about 400 lightyears, the image field of view corresponds to a linear diameter of 20 lightyears.
Credit: AURA/NOAO/NSF

• More information on this image (N.A. Sharp/NOAO)
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  Image of the Pleiades, M45, taken with the 4-meter Mayall Telescope of Kitt Peak National Observatory.
  Credit: AURA/NOAO/NSF
• More information on this image (N.A. Sharp/NOAO)
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  Wider field image of the Pleiades star cluster, M45. It was created by David Malin from photographic plates obtained by Malcolm Hartley with the 1.2-meter UK Schmidt Telescope. It is copyrighted by the Australian Astronomical Observatory; see theirusage policy. More technical information can be found with the enhanced Pleiades image cropped from this wider-field photograph.
• David Malin's informations on this image
• More UKS, AAT and other images by David Malin

• Rosat X-ray image of the Pleiades
• Amateur images of M45

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