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I shot several winter open clusters . These are the bright clusters I often
come across while search for comets. When these objects slide into the
eyepiece field, their beauty makes me want to scream with wonder and excitement.
The stars in these clusters look as if they were breathing in the eyepiece
field of my comet seeker. My comet seeker is 12cm in aperture with 20x
power. It is the best to use the lowest effective magnification to see
diffuse objects. Incidentally, the 19th-century American comet hunter Swift
discovered the nebulosity enveloping the Pleiades. Later, Barnard took
photographs of the nebulosity. 21cm f/3 on T-Max 400 |
The Praesepe |
The Hyades |
The Pleiades |
M35 and NGC 2158 |
The Double Star Cluster in Perseus |
Copyright (C) 2000 Tsutomu Seki.