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#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"

👉 https://mayotte.ign.fr/?lon=45.235366&lat=-12.779281&z=16.7&layer1=26&layer2=21&mode=split-h

This evening, the #toenail #Moon appears to pass through the #Pleiades star cluster (M45). Best viewed with a camera with telelens or binoculars!

Just over a week ago, @starstryder posted a wonderful piece on the life of open clusters. If you missed it, wander over here... https://astrodon.social/@starstryder/113507811810656081

This inspired me to do a quick one night tour of the features she described.

To my shame, I had never heard of the Hyades Cluster, so that was a particular adventure for me. It also proved too much of a challenge for my little Dwarf3 - the 3 degree FoV is just not quite enough to capture the whole cluster.

Now, these are not the greatest shots of these features - I had work the next day, so I had to cram everything into about 1 1/2 hours. Great astrophotography this is not. But what it is is a tour through time. It was, however, also a chance to test out the scheduling feature of the beta software for the Dwarf.

#astronomy #astrophotography #OpenClusters #Orion #Pleiades #Hyades #Dwarf3

Lovely sky right now, feels like we haven’t seen many stars lately. If you’re in the UK and #LookUp right now, you’ll see the #Pleiades and #Hyades clusters, the bright stars #Capella, #Aldebaran and #Betelgeuse (no, it hasn’t exploded yet), as well as #Jupiter. Here’s the view. #astronomy #space

Cosmography archives

The Nebra Sky Disk - dated 1600 BCE it is the oldest known depiction of the Cosmos, featuring a star map with the Pleiades cluster, a crescent moon, a sun or full moon; arcs mark the angle between solstices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/235/the-nebra-sky-disk---ancient-map-of-the-stars/

#astronomy #astrodon #universe #cosmos #space #science #research #sky #map #skymap #nebraskydisk #cosmography #cartography #archive #archives #pleiades #star #stars #map #moon #sun

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

3 (South & West): Did you know you can see deep sky star clusters with the naked eye? It's true. Meissa (see above) is part of a cluster called Caldwell 69. Then if you draw a line through Orion's belt toward the west, you'll hit the V-shaped #Hyades, and then the tiny-dipper-shaped #Pleiades cluster. These are what we call "open clusters," which means they're kinda loose collections of stars but they're gravity holds them to each other and they travel the night together.

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✨ ALERTE #astronomie

Ça rend pas bien à cause des lens flares mais s'il fait clair ce soir chez vous, allez admirer le beau regroupement #Lune, #Mars, #Pleiades, #Hyades, #Orion. C'est superbe.

Moon near Mars January 30 and 31
Posted by Marcy Curran
https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-near-mars-january-30-and-31-2023/

#moon #mars #astronomy #aldebaran #hyades #pleiades #orion #occultation

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That’s the #Hyades cluster, the closest star cluster to Earth. The interesting thing is the Hyades is about 150 LY away, so Aldebaran isn’t part of the cluster, but in front of it; between us and it. Just a bit higher up is the #Pleiades cluster.

The Pleiades is 450 light years away, about three times farther than the Hyades. Because it's father, we see it as smaller than the Hyades, even though it's actually bigger than the Hyades is.

If you observe the #night #sky, you might see 2 very bright objects. Most people probably think they are just random bright stars, but these objects are actually #Jupiter and #Mars.

#Mars is easy to recognize, as illustrated in this #APOD #picture, as it is located not so far from 2 stellar clusters called the #Hyades and the #Pleiades.

#Astronomy #Space #photography

Mars and the Star Clusters
Image Credit & Copyright: Gabor Balazs

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221230.html

Il y a plus de 20 ans, je suis tombé amoureux de cette région du ciel, et pas que pour mon étoile favorite. Y en a-t-il de plus belle dans l'hémisphère Nord ?

Bon solstice d'hiver à toutes et à tous.

#Orion #Taurus #Betelgeuse #Pleiades #Hyades #Mars #Aldebaran #Rigel

Planet #Mars near #Hyades (at bottom) and #Pleiades (at upper right) last night.

Le ninfe del firmamento: le Iadi e le Pleiadi. Forse son loro a custodire i segreti del cielo, ma restano silenziose. Eppure non mi stancherò mai di domandar loro quali siano questi segreti, a notte fonda, con gli occhi e col cuore.
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#starrynight #stars #sky
#stelle night #pleiades #hyades #astrophotography

Lovely sky tonight, albeit a bit on the chilly side 🥶 ✨ We have #Orion, the #Hyades, #Mars, and the #Pleiades, all in the south! #LookUp #astronomy #Astrodon #NightSky #stargazing