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Month: January 2015

An evening with the Pleiades

For those nights when you don’t want to spend an eternity tracking your target down it’s nice to have a plan that involves one of the brightest objects in the night sky. The Pleiades (M45) is handy for just this reason, and armed with a map and some doubles from the Washington Double Star catalogue (WDS) that’s what I decided to do on the night of the 6th January 2015.

A reversed image of the Pleiades from the Digital Sky Survey

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Author JamesPosted on January 8, 2015January 8, 2015Categories ObservingTags doubles, notesLeave a comment on An evening with the Pleiades

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