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Star Cluster to Hide Behind Moon

Posted September 12, 2008 9:02 AM

From SPACE.com:

If you live anywhere to the north of a line that runs across North America from roughly Queen Charlotte Island in British Columbia southeast to near Jacksonville, Florida and clear skies are forecast for Friday evening, Sept. 19, then be sure to be outside during the mid-evening hours and watch for the rising of the waning gibbous moon. If you have binoculars or a telescope you will also see the moon moving in front of the famous Pleiades star cluster.

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09/13/2008 10:55 AM

Pleiades is so dim you can barely see it on a dark night. What are the chances if it is next to the moon?

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09/22/2008 1:03 AM

We never see the Pleiades, ever, down under.

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