Pleiades star cluster visible Tuesday night

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: April 7, 2008 | Copyright information

If only the weather predictors prove wrong, Utahns could be in for a binocular treat Tuesday evening, when the moon pays a visit to the Seven Sisters.

The Seven Sisters is the ancient Greek name for the Pleiades star cluster, which actually has hundreds of dim stars and as many as 14 visible to the naked eye under stellar conditions. With enough magnification, they seem bound closely together by the hazy wisps of a nebula.

On Tuesday evening, the thin crescent moon will be close ...

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