The Sky Today on Sunday, July 20: The Moon occults the Pleiades

The Moon passes in front of several stars in the Pleiades cluster in an occultation this morning, best seen from North and Central America. Both the view and its timing are heavily location dependent — you can check this International Occultation Timing Association’s page to find when Electra (17 Tauri), the first star to vanish behindContinue reading “The Sky Today on Sunday, July 20: The Moon occults the Pleiades”
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