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Originally Posted by ShOrEbReAk
Will look for the Pleiades tonight if I get the chance ...
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Track along Orion's belt (the base of the saucepan) to the left...
there you will see a V arrangement of stars with a bright Orange star atop one of the limbs (that constellation is Taurus and the star is Aldebaran)...
Continue about the same distance to the left and you will see a roundish smudge of stars in a group about the size of a 10c piece held at arms length ... The Pleiades. (aka the Seven Sisters) A group of (more than 7) stars with inter-twined nebulosity (gas clouds).
Mythology says the Seven sisters were being pursued by Orion and they took refuge on the back of Taurus (The Bull).