#pleaides

[oxyintelligent]

“a. Peleiades: "the Pleiades," says Callimachus (fr. 381 Schneider, II 572), that they were the daughters of the queen of the Amazons—seven in number—and were called both Pleiades and Peleiades. They were the first to establish choral dances and all-night festivals while still maidens. The sense is this: at the season when the Pleiades rise, the whole earth blooms with the plants of spring; at that time they used to make preparations for sailing. The names of the Pleiades are: Kokkyma, Glaucia, Protis, Parthenia, Maia, Stonychia, Lampado.”- Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 13, 25

Original Greek:

I love the idea of Hermes as the son of an Amazon princess

[geopsych]

Some pictures, not great, of the interesting sky this morning before dawn. The moon is a crescent but the phone just made it a bright blob. The bright thing to its right and lower is Jupiter and below that and left is mars. I’m not sure what the star is directly left of Jupiter.

Orion is at the bottom right in the second picture. Above him is a V formation* that’s part of the constellation Taurus (it me!) and above that the tight group of stars known as the Pleaides. I know there’s more and I can look them up but this is as far as my own knowledge takes me.

*The bright star on the lower left of that Taurus V is Aldebaran, one of the brightest stars in the sky. It’s a red giant and ‘only’ 65 light years away.

[wildwithlight]

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Mars And The Pleiades

[therealuniverse]

M:45 THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER Perhaps one of the most well known star clusters in the night sky, The Pleaides (M45) provides a spectacle to people all over the world, including those in heavily light polluted cities.

Visible are seven bright stars, (hence the name Seven Sisters), however some observers have claimed to have seen up to thirteen stars clustered closely together, prominent in the summer months for those in the Southern Hemisphere, and in winter months for viewers in the Northern Hemisphere. The cluster is compromised of extremely hot blue stars, formed within the last 100 million years (which is relatively young in stellar terms). The total solar mass of the cluster is estimated to be about 800 solar masses, and the cluster lies approximately 400 light years away, in the constellation of Taurus the Bull, and and is estimated to last for another 250 million years before dispersing throughout the galaxy due to gravitational influences. In Japanese, the constellation is known as Subaru, as depicted in the logo of the popular auto-mobile company. M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster -EJ Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler Source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120903.html

[divinitydawning]

[travelnew]

Venus & the Pleaides (the Seven Sisters, asterism) conjunction on 4 April 2020 in the evening near the west side. This conjunction happens only once every 8 years!

Watch Venus change its position with respect to the open star cluster on 3 April 2020.

[lunasong365]

This is so pretty and what we are outside looking at right now! A conjunction this close between the planet and asterism only happens once every eight years, and always in early April.