The Hyades, the star nymphs
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The Hyades, the star nymphs
The Hyades cluster is the closest star cluster to Earth, at a distance of 153 light years in the direction of the constellation of Taurus, the Bull.
This cluster is very easy to spot in the night sky, because it has a compact and distinctive shape of the letter V.
The bright reddish-orange giant star Aldebaran is part of the V. The V shape represents the Face of the Bull in the constellation Taurus. Aldebaran represents the Bull’s fiery red eye.
In Greek mythology the Hyades were nymphs of the five stars of the constellation Hyades and daughters of the heavens-bearing Titan Atlas.
LRGB-image acquired with SPA-3 (Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor and FLI PL16803 camera). Data from 3 one-clicks.
Total integration time 180 minutes
LRGB: 9 sub-frames of 300s with each color filter
This cluster is very easy to spot in the night sky, because it has a compact and distinctive shape of the letter V.
The bright reddish-orange giant star Aldebaran is part of the V. The V shape represents the Face of the Bull in the constellation Taurus. Aldebaran represents the Bull’s fiery red eye.
In Greek mythology the Hyades were nymphs of the five stars of the constellation Hyades and daughters of the heavens-bearing Titan Atlas.
LRGB-image acquired with SPA-3 (Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor and FLI PL16803 camera). Data from 3 one-clicks.
Total integration time 180 minutes
LRGB: 9 sub-frames of 300s with each color filter
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
SPA-3 Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera
FLI PL16803
Location
IC Astronomy Observatory, Oria, Spain
Date of observation
24 - 26/11/2022
Filters
LRGB
Processing
PixInsight (using AutoIntegrate script), Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and NoiseXTerminator plug-ins
Credits
One-click observations TL
