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#pleiades

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IGN France

#Mayotte❤️ - Une nouvelle couverture #Pléiades 2025 est disponible pour le suivi de la reconstruction post #Chido.
Ces images, acquises entre le 16 janvier et le 23 mars 2025, s'ajoutent aux ressources déjà disponibles sur notre plateforme dédiée pour :
- l’évaluation des dégâts
- la planification et le suivi de la reconstruction
- l'accompagnement des populations

Dispo en visualisation et en WMTS sur la #Géoplateforme "ORTHOIMAGERY.ORTHO-SAT.PLEIADES.2025"

👉 mayotte.ign.fr/?lon=45.235366&

Comparatif des prises de vue de la ville de Mamoudzou entre la dernière couverture Pleiade de 2025 et celle de Décembre 2024.
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earthling

Moon Visits Sister Stars

Sometimes, the Moon visits the Pleiades. Technically, this means that the orbit of our Moon takes it directly in front of the famous Pleiades star cluster, which is far in the distance. The technical term for the event is an occultation, and the Moon is famous for its rare occultations of all planets and several well-known bright stars.

Image Credit: Cayetana Saiz

#astrophotography
#Moon
#Pleiades
#occultation
#APOD

The Moon's tilted and precessing orbit makes its occultations of the Seven Sisters star cluster bunchy, with the current epoch starting in 2023 continuing monthly until 2029. After that, though, the next occultation won't occur until 2042. Taken from Cantabria, Spain on April 1, the featured image is a composite where previous exposures of the Pleiades from the same camera and location were digitally added to the last image to bring up the star cluster's iconic blue glow.
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Frank Adler
Moon & Pleiades
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On April 1st, 2025, between 20:45 and 23:45 (UTC), our moon passed in front of the Pleiades. Of course, our skies were completely cloudy, so I wasn’t able to capture the actual event, but due to the brightness of the moon compared to M45, creating a nice capture would have been complicated anyway.

Therefore, I used archive material (my M45 capture from November 2024 and the Moon from January 2022), to create an artistic composition of the event.

Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da
Filter: Antlia TriBand RGB Ultra
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5 GT
Guiding: Svbony SV165 Guide Scope with ZWO ASI 224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro

Integration time: 6hrs 20min

Full version and print available at: https://adfr.io/thoughts/20250402_moon_passing_pleiades

#astrophotography #astrophoto #astrophotographer #deepsky #deepskyphotography #deepskyobject #deepskyastrophotography #moon #pleiades #plejaden #mond
#mond
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Daniel Scher 📷

Last night we were treated to the Waxing Crescent Moon cozying up to the Pleiades star cluster just after sunset.

A low cloud was kind enough to pass in front of the moon when I took this photo, dimming its glow and revealing the line of craters while the unobscured stars were still shining brightly.

(You may need to click to see the full vertical image and the Pleiades)

Vertical photo of the Seven Sisters open star cluster at top left, facing the Waxing Crescent Moon at bottom right.
#Astronomy#Photography#StarGazing
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Starry Time Podcast

Since I'm seeking #Pleiades content as I scroll today -- we did an #astronomy & #mythology #podcast episode on the Pleiades last season!

You can check it out here if you want to learn more about this star cluster / nymph sisters: starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/

starrytimepodcast.podbean.comAsterism: The Pleiades in Astronomy and Mythology | Starry TimeJoin Jordan and Kit as they explore the astronomy and mythology of the Pleiades!  Episode transcripts: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/episode-transcripts.html Website: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/ Social: https://universeodon.com/@starrytimepod Timestamps00:00 Intro00:43 Astronomy of the Pleiades05:00 Mythology of the Pleiades10:20 Retconstellations14:37 Oracle AI18:06 Outro Keywords/Topics Covered:  Pleiades, Seven Sisters, Messier 45, Asterism, Taurus Constellation, Open Star Cluster, Reflection Nebulae, Greek Mythology, Orion, Atlas, Oceanids, Folklore, Retconstellations, AI Oracle, Astronomy, Mythology.
#AstroDon#Space#Science
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Nina Felwitch :v_trans:

More images from last night.

First is Jupiter and a few of its moons.

Second is M 78, also known as NGC 2068, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion, 1350 light years away. It is also known as the Casper the friendly ghost nebula.

Third photo are of the Pleiades. The Pleiades are visible with the naked eye and are about 444 light years away.

#astrophotography
#Seestar
#Pleiades

Photo of Jupiter and its moons. They're just bright dots on black background. The brightest dot is Jupiter itself and four other dots are the moons.
A photo of stars. A light blue nebula with two bright stars at its center. The nebula is small in the image.
The famous Pleiades. A cluster of bright blue stars.
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earthling

Seven Sisters versus California

On the right, dressed in blue, is the Pleiades. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and most easily visible open clusters on the sky. The Pleiades contains over 3,000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Surrounding the stars is a spectacular blue reflection nebula made of fine dust.

Image Credit & Copyright: Todd Anderson

#astrophotography
#Pleiades
#CaliforniaNebula
#APOD

A common legend is that one of the brighter stars faded since the cluster was named. On the left, shining in red, is the California Nebula. Named for its shape, the California Nebula is much dimmer and hence harder to see than the Pleiades. Also known as NGC 1499, this mass of red glowing hydrogen gas is about 1,500 light years away. Although about 25 full moons could fit between them, the featured wide angle, deep field image composite has captured them both. A careful inspection of the deep image will also reveal the star forming region IC 348 and the molecular cloud LBN 777 (the Baby Eagle Nebula).
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