I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Whenever the moon shines near the Pleiades ... in this cluster (called an occultation) within a few hours, amid the dazzling lunar glare. Typically, an occultation of a specific star is not ...

Soon after 10 p.m. the moon will have moved beyond the cluster. On January 9th at 7 p.m. EST, as seen from New York City, the waxing gibbous moon will be very close to the Pleiades star cluster.

9, the 10-day old moon will actually pass through the Pleiades. Most North American observers will be able to watch as the moon passes in front of more than a few stars in this cluster (called an ...

M45, the Pleiades star cluster, in a series of exposures ... also known as the “Seven Sisters” and M45, is a open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus about 440 light-years distant ...

In the evening during early January, the prominent open star cluster known as the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is climbing the southeastern sky. The stars of its home constellation ...

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...