This is the very blue and bright Southern Pleiades star cluster, catalogued as IC 2602, surrounding the naked eye star Theta Carinae. The Southern Ple

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This is the very blue and bright Southern Pleiades star cluster, catalogued as IC 2602, surrounding the naked eye star Theta Carinae. The Southern Pleiades lies in Carina in a field immersed in diffuse nebulosity and dark lanes of dust. The star cluster below IC 2602 is Melotte (Mel) 101. The cluster at upper left is IC 2714. Below it is the smaller Mel 105. This is a stack of 8 x 5 minute exposures with the Sharpstar 61mm EDOH III refractor at and the filter-modified (by ) Canon R at ISO 800. No filter was employed here. On the AP 400 mount autoguided with the MGEN3 stand-alone guider. Taken from near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, in March 2024.

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