At the end of the session last night, I couldn't resist pointing at M45, the Pleiades cluster, which was very present to the left of Jupiter. A single 300sec... we can already see the blue nebulosities... autumn is coming, this target is on my to-do list, I can't wait! #Astrodon #Astronomy #M45 #pleiades

Die Plejaden letzte Nacht...

100 Bilder, je 60 Sekunden
Kamera: Canon EOS 1000D
ISO 400
Teleskop:
Skywatcher 130PDS
130mm Öffnung
650mm Brennweite
gestakked mit SIRIL,
bearbeitet mit Darktable

#astronomy #m45 #Pleiades #astronomie #fotografie

I love it when a student asks questions! Today during office hours I got to recommend websites for Qur'an, Tafsir, and historical geography (including #Pleiades, the World Historical Gazetteer, and my own #HIMME : https://medievalmideast.org )!

How to measure snow depth with ICESat-2 ?!
Combine ICESat-2 ATL06 snow-on elevation with snow-off elevation from airborne lidar or satellite photogrammetry #Pléiades @cnes !
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/2779/2023/

Today in New Zealand is the second observance of the new public holiday for Matariki. This is cool for a number of reasons:

1) It celebrates the new year as traditionally observed by Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand

2) The legislation introducing it was bilingual in English and Te Reo Maori. (Although Te Reo is an official language of NZ, along with English and NZ Sign Language, it's not common for legislation to be bilingual)

3) Matariki is tied to a lunar calendar, which makes it a movable feast on the solar/Gregorian calendar. Like Easter it has an astronomical definition (the first rising of Matariki [Pleiades] above the horizon in the last quarter of the moon in the first month of the lunar year) but for convenience there are published tables of dates, which recall medieval computus tables.

#Matariki #NewZealand #Computus #LunarCalendar #Pleiades

The #Pleiades also known as The Seven Sisters, Messier 45 and other names by different cultures, is an asterism and an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth. #astrophotography (imaged with Skywatcher 72ED refractor and ZWO Asi533mc camera, at bortle 3 site, description from Wikipedia)

@iangriffin

Thank you! I never knew the #Pleiades is also known as #Matariki. Glad to have you on board.

#astronomy #tonight

The Waxing Crescent Moon (6%), Pleiades (The Seven Sisters) and Venus.
#moon #crescentmoon #earthshine #Venus #Pleiades #astronomy #astrophotography

Highlights from twilight.

Two-day old Friday crescent moon sits higher in the sky than yesterday, so the detail is sharper, and the sky is darker.

Some cirrus adds a glow around the crescent, but not so much cirrus to prevent the Pleiades from showing up in late twilight.

#Moon
#Pleiades
#astrophotography
#Astrodon
#photography
#Twilight

Earth from Space: Rome, Italy.
#ESA #EO #Roma #Plêiades
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/04/Earth_from_Space_Rome_Italy

Astrophotography challenge for Friday evening, 21 April, northern hemisphere, in twilight.

The young crescent moon will be below the Pleaides.

A telephoto lens will capture this nicely in portrait orientation.

#Astronomy
#Photography
#Astrodon
#astrophotography
#Moon
#Pleiades

Venus and m45 star cluster made a really nice pair last night.

Credits: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn
http://instagram.com/weatherandsky
#pleiades #sevensisters #astronomy #Astrophotography

Look up! #Venus and #Pleiades are still close to each other. 4/12/23 9PM

The planet #Venus is still near the #Pleiades this evening, and minutes ago I finally had the opportunity to catch the pair with a #BridgeCamera from my balcony: 3.2 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 800, with a focal length equivalent to 400 mm for 35 mm film.

Venus is hanging with the Sisters tonight as Mercury basks in the glow of twilight. Images captured one-hour after sunset from Marion, IA. #Venus #Mercury #Pleiades #planets #twilight #photography #astronomy #astrophotography

My first Uranus capture! Had to take help of Sky Guide app.
Venus, Mercury, Pleiades are also captured tonight ✨✈️🪐
#venus #Pleiades #mercury #uranus #photography

Venus + Pleiades ✨
Enjoy the night sky!
#nightsky #photography #venus #pleiades

See the planet #Venus glide past not one but two star clusters this month. Look west at dusk and find bright Venus high in the sky. Then, with binoculars, look on either side of it. To the right (in mid-northern latitudes) is the #Pleiades star cluster, which appears like a tiny Big Dipper. To the left is the #Hyades star cluster marked most notably by the bright orange star #Aldebaran. The cyan line with points/dates marks its location each night through the 20th.

📷: Stellarium simulation

Now Available: Pleiades Datasets 3.0

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/now-available-pleiades-datasets-3.0

Free, open, and platform-neutral: updates and additions to published content of the #Pleiades#Gazetteer of ancient places between 12 October 2020 and 4 April 2023.

This blog post is about archival copies of data derived from the gazetteer. Version 3.0 of this data has just been released via GitHub, with deposits in Zenodo, archive.org, and the NYU Faculty Digital Archive.

Here’s a story about one of my favorites from her works. A representation of the #Pleiades.

https://www.kerrartworks.com/blog/165137/nebra-sky-sisters-complete