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Taurus

Taurus (the Bull) although well away from the main part of the Milky Way, still shows many dust and dark lanes in this photograph, as well as the famous M45 open cluster (the Pleiades or Seven Sisters) and the Hyades open cluster surrounding Aldebaran.

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Date/Location: Mt. Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands (elev. 7700ft) / October 2003  
Equipment: Vixen GP Photoguider mount / Zuiko 50mm F1.8 kens @ F4  
Camera/Exposure: Olympus OM1 35mm camera / E200 slide film / 1 x 20 min exposure  
Processing: Scanned with Minolta D'Image Scan Duall II @ 2700dpi, post processed with Photoshop 7  
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