Pleiades
Open cluster in the constellation of Taurus
Also known as M45 · Seven Sisters · Messier 45 · Mel 22 · SEVEN SISTERS
- Instance of
- Part of
Overview
All data
75 statements · 47% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Catalog code
- M 45 catalog: Messier object
1
- OCl 421.0 catalog: Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations
1
- Collinder 42 catalog: Collinder catalogue
- Melotte 22 catalog: Melotte Catalogue
- C 0344+239 catalog: Caldwell catalogue
1
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0305 catalog: Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way. III. 139 new open clusters at high Galactic latitudes
1
- M 45 catalog: Messier object
- Distance from Earth
- 134.4 pc
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.6 astronomical filter: V band
1
- 1.6 astronomical filter: V band
- Radius
- 7.5 ly
1
Sources- 1.“Comet PanSTARRS is near the Edge”apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180216.htmlRetrieved 2018-10-02
- 7.5 ly
- Mass
- 800 M☉
- Named after
- Pleiades language: Greek
- pearl necklace applies to name of subject: 昴 · language: Old Japanese
- Spectral class
- I,3,m
- Radial velocity
- 5.65 kilometre per second
- Right ascension
- 56.75 degree
1
- 56.75 degree
- Declination
- 24.1167 degree
1
- 24.1167 degree
- Parallax
- 7.364 milliarcsecond
- Metallicity
- -0.01
2
Sources- 1.Stated in On the metallicity of open clusters
- 2.Stated in On the metallicity of open clusters
- -0.01
- Angular diameter
- 110 arcminute
- Age estimated by a dating method
- 115 megaannum
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- 19.997 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- -45.548 milliarcsecond per year
On other databases
29 identifiers linking Pleiades across the web's reference databases
- BabelNet ID00063000n
- BNCF Thesaurus ID74640
- De Agostini IDPlèiadi+(astronomia)
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Pleiades-astronomy
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2ddckJ
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)203176
- Freebase ID/m/0fmsd
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID8730293
- GND ID4174907-8
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDles-pleiades
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0051528
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDPleiadene
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)3145462
- Interlingual Index IDi85993
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID12206
- KBpedia IDPleiades
- Lex IDPlejaderne
- MANTO ID9882842
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2780846721
- Museum-digital tag ID15228
- Myths on Maps IDPLEI2
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1627364
- OpenAlex IDC2780846721
- Pixiv Encyclopedia IDプレアデス星団
- SIMBAD IDCl Melotte 22
- ToposText person ID16638
- VIAF cluster ID237301763
- Vikidia article IDfr:Pléiades_(astronomie)
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09418656-n