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4 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

When Terry puts up a good photo it's stunning but when i do it it's photoshop your nothing but a 
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Comparing Terry's photos to yours is like comparing ice cream to horse shit!

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Pleiades aka "Seven Sisters" - Messier 45 illuminating the dust cloud passing by it at a rate of 18km/s, the start cluster is more than 400 light years away and it's the closest Messier object to Earth
Shot from my garden with a standard camera and 500mm lens

Folklore: (there's many alternatives from just about every continent/country)

After Atlas was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders, Orion began to pursue all of the Pleiades, and Zeus transformed them first into doves, and then into stars to comfort their father. The constellation of Orion is said to still pursue them across the night sky.

One of the most memorable myths involving the Pleiades is the story of how these sisters literally became stars, their catasterism. According to some versions of the tale, all seven sisters committed suicide because they were so saddened by either the fate of their father, Atlas, or the loss of their siblings, the Hyades. In turn Zeus, the ruler of the Greek gods, immortalized the sisters by placing them in the sky. There these seven stars formed the star cluster known thereafter as the Pleiades.

 

 

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