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| Brigantine Beach Skyscape |
The Pleiades has always been one of my favorite "constellations." I think it's partly the different mythologies of the "seven sisters" found in different cultures. The Neil deGrasse Tyson Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey series did a wonderful job of presenting several of these stories in Episode 8: Sisters of the Sun.
Last night, the seeing conditions were outstanding! Not a cloud anywhere and cool dry air. With no moon, the Pleiades was clearly visible with the naked eye and fit perfectly in the field-of-view of the Celestron 12x70 Cometron binoculars. With the dark sky, there were so many stars in the cluster that it was actually difficult to spot the "seven" of it's name.
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| How many stars do you see? |
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