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SorellaLaBefana

(335 posts) Tue Apr 8, 2025, 09:42 AM Apr 8

Moon, Stars and Magic: La Bella Luna and the Seven Sisters Bring a Moment of Peace and Serenity (APOD)

... 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.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250408.html

This mindful moment is brought to the world by Science, Art and NASA

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Moon, Stars and Magic: La Bella Luna and the Seven Sisters Bring a Moment of Peace and Serenity (APOD) (Original Post) SorellaLaBefana Apr 8 OP

Gorgeous. Pinback Apr 8 #1

Magic is a good word for it. calimary Apr 8 #2

Back when I was a mid-teen and my eyesight was sharp . . . John1956PA Apr 8 #3

Wonderful! electric_blue68 Apr 10 #4

TY! In the later '90's when I had acess to rhe Internet from the library... electric_blue68 Apr 10 #5

Pinback

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1. Gorgeous.

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 09:44 AM

Apr 8

Thank you.
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calimary

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2. Magic is a good word for it.

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 09:48 AM

Apr 8

No - actually a mInd-bending GREAT word for it!

John1956PA

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3. Back when I was a mid-teen and my eyesight was sharp . . .

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:33 AM

Apr 8

. . . I caught a view of the Pleiades as I gazed out the window of traveling bus on a dark night on the way back home from a sporting event. I have never forgotten the wonder of that moment.

electric_blue68

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4. Wonderful!

Reply to John1956PA (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:41 PM

Apr 10

While different when I traveled by bus from NYC to AZ, then to San Francisco I usually sat on the right side. At night the Big Dipper hung the sky. Lovely!

electric_blue68

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5. TY! In the later '90's when I had acess to rhe Internet from the library...

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:55 PM

Apr 10

Idk what started me but I was able to find out when I could see the Pleiades.

They just went past our building's rooftop. So I had to look straight up the wall to just past the roof top's edge to catch them. Wondrous!

Luckily I could do it from the ease of my fire escape, which because we faced from on top the back of a hill we overlooked 8 stories high over the buildings of 2 avenues below, and east of us. Had a 180° view of the sky!

.During the Winter Orion hung out in our night sky.

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