Wow, was I annoyed we had rain - when we could have seen the Pleiades right near the Moon.

[electric_blue68]

I haven't gone looking for them in decades.

I once saw them looking up from my first floor window - they were just clear of the sixth floor's roof edge!

But now I had a digital camera with a zoom lens! Even a zoom on my smart phone! Bah! : (

Anyone Lucky enough to see them?!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Looking for faint nebula near brightest object in night sky not best plan

Brightest object in the night sky is at its brightest when it is full, as it is now.

[electric_blue68]

3. It was suggested to try despite the fact of our "big nightlight" Moon nearby anyway :D

[mitch96]

2. Nope, drizzle and overcast here in West Central Florida. One interesting factoid about Pleiades I have read

is it means 昴 Subaru in Japanese. The car logo is a stylized version of the stars. I thought that was neat.
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[electric_blue68]

4. Aw, too bad for you. And, yeah, that Is interesting. Ty

[progree]

5. I see them most reasonably clear nights in season. But very dimly due to the light pollution where I live.

I had not heard of the conjunction with the moon but probably wouldn't have bothered since I'm sure the nearly full moon nearby would washed them out.

To see what's up, every night, sometimes 3 or 4 times a night, I look at
https://in-the-sky.org/skymap2.php

(get rid of that deep space junk with that checkbox below the sky map and on the left side -- nobody can see any of that stuff unless they live 50 miles from the nearest street lamp, so its just clutter)

I would be lost without this because of the city lights, so few stars and planets are visible, so this helps enormously in finding things and being sure that what I'm seeing is actually what I think I'm seeing.

For those who want to see the H.A. Rey version of the constellations: On the left side below the sky map, there is the default setting: "Simplified Designs". Pull down on its arrow, and choose "H.A. Rey's designs".