Star Tours

The Pleiades (also called the Seven Sisters) is one of the prettiest clusters of stars in the sky. The cluster is in the east during the early evening and high in the south at midnight. With the unaided eye, most people see six stars in a dipper-shaped configuration smaller than a thumbnail at arm’s length, but binoculars reveal dozens. The Pleiades is about 380 light-years from Earth and about 7 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals 63,000 times the distance from Earth to the sun). Lined up to the upper right of the Pleiades are Saturn and Jupiter.

Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory