[Dennis]

Hello,

To clear the backyard trees, I set up my GEM in the lounge and poked the camera out of the window to photograph this very pretty and picturesque conjunction around 5:15am on the 4th July.

Canon 7D with 70-200 F4L
70mm at F5.6
10 secs, ISO400

Here is a stack of 10 frames with a single 10 sec frame for comparison. Unfortunately these shots were taken shooting into the light dome of the Brisbane CBD.

According to the oracle of Wikki:
The Pleiades, companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene. They are the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. The Pleiades were nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together with the seven Hyades were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Bacchus.

The Hyades were daughters of Atlas (by either Pleione or Aethra, one of the Oceanides) and sisters of Hyas in most tellings, although one version gives their parents as Hyas and Boeotia. The Hyades are sisters to the Pleiades and the Hesperides.

Cheers

Dennis