. # 9 (green for the Milky Way)
The Pleiades, M45, also known as the 7 sisters.  Now we have left the
Solar System and traveled VERY far away (almost 1/2 million times
farther than Pluto, the last known planet in our Solar System, and the
only planet yet to be explored).  This is a star cluster of relatively
new stars that apparently drifted away from the Orion nebulae (see M42
later on).  In order to see the gas around the stars, this image was
computer-enhanced (see M1 later on).  Taken in 12/92, it is about 410
light-YEARS, or almost 2 1/2 quadrillion(!) miles away.


#9      from IMG0002.pcd, taken 12/19/92, f/10,  ASA 400, 7min