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Hyades Cluster in Taurus.

Manually guided photo taken with a Minolta SR-T101 camera with a 200mm TeleSor Auto MC f/3.3 lens stopped to f/5.6 piggyback mounted on a 203.2mm f/6.3 Meade LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopeusing Kodak Supra 400 ASA film with an exposure of 15 minutes at about 3:00 AM on October 6, 2002 in Ellenville, NY. The bright star just below and to the left of the center of the image Aldebaran. The six points on Aldebaran are the diffraction pattern caused by the lens's diaphragm. The open cluster NGC1647 is in the upper left corner of this photo.

Photo © 2002 by Taras R. Hnatyshyn

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