Cloudy Orion & Taurus 07/12/15 by Spicey_Spiney on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Taken with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm lens
Tag: Pleiades
Cloudy Orion & Taurus 07/12/15 by Spicey_Spiney on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Taken with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm lens
see seven sisters in the night sky
see seven sisters in the night sky
Not the easiset to see with the naked eye. When you look to the right or left of it, you can see it a bit better.
Locate the constellation of Taurus to find it.
See more about Pleiades by taking a look at this post I did a couple of years ago…
see seven sisters in the night sky
see seven sisters in the night sky
Not the easiset to see with the naked eye. When you look to the right or left of it, you can see it a bit better.
Locate the constellation of Taurus to find it.
See more about Pleiades by taking a look at this post I did a couple of years ago…
see seven sisters in the night sky
Pleiades
Not the easiset to see with the naked eye. When you look to the right or left of it, you can see it a bit better.
Locate the constellation of Taurus to find it.
See more about Pleiades by taking a look at this post I did a couple of years ago…
I’m star struck by star clusters
Star clusters or star clouds are groups of stars.
Two types of star clusters can be distinguished: globular clusters are tight groups of hundreds of thousands of very old stars which are gravitationally bound, while open clusters, more loosely clustered groups of stars, generally contain fewer than a few hundred members, and are often very young. Open clusters become disrupted over time by the gravitational influence of giant molecular clouds as they move through the galaxy, but cluster members will continue to move in broadly the same direction through space even though they are no longer gravitationally bound; they are then known as a stellar association, sometimes also referred to as a moving group.
Star clusters visible to the naked eye include Pleiades, Hyades and the Beehive Cluster.
Seven Sisters Pleiades
Mythology of Seven Sisters
After Atlas was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders, Orion began to pursue all of the Pleiades, and Zeus transformed them first into doves, and then into stars to comfort their father. The constellation of Orion is said to still pursue them across the night sky.
One of the most memorable myths involving the Pleiades is the story of how these sisters literally became stars, their catasterism.
According to some versions of the tale, all seven sisters committed suicide because they were so saddened by either the fate of their father, Atlas, or the loss of their siblings, the Hyades. In turn Zeus, the ruler of the Greek gods, immortalized the sisters by placing them in the sky. There these seven stars formed the constellation known thereafter as the Pleiades.
The Greek poet Hesiod mentions the Pleiades several times in his Works and Days. As the Pleiades are primarily winter stars, they feature prominently in the ancient agricultural calendar. Here is a bit of advice from Hesiod:
“And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas,
when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion
and plunge into the misty deep
and all the gusty winds are raging,
then do not keep your ship on the wine-dark sea
but, as I bid you, remember to work the land.”
(Works and Days 618-23)
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