[Aztlan] Artificial Lights and Viewing the Stars

[Martha Gottlieb]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:01 pm, Susan Gilchrist wrote:
> I've counted seven Pleiades in Berkeley, on campus near the library and
> campanile where there's a lot of artificial light and a smog that turns the
> sky sort of purple and orange. They're interesting because they're close
> together and seem to turn on and off, so it takes a minute to see that
> they're all there. Small but very distinctive.--susan gilchrist

Good eyes!  Good binoculars would be necessary for most of us.
Many years ago, under the clear skies of New Jersey my mother taught me the 
constellations.   The Pleiades were easy to spot and - unique.  Nothing like 
them, at least in that latitude.  
Perhaps that is one reason why they are such an important feature in the 
mind's mythological map.  Mysterious little fuzzy place.
				Martha