[tied] Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

>
> > One star of the Pleiades is imperfect, since it blew up some

thousand

> > years back, reducing the perfect seven stars of that

constellation to

> > an imperfect six.
>
> I don't think that's correct. Some people see the six brightest

stars,

> others, sharper-sighted can see seven (there are actually many more

of them:

>
> http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/pleiades-t.html
> )
>
> The whole cluster is very young in astronomical terms, and as far

as I know

> none of the Pleiades has exploded since its birth. The so-called

Merope

> Nebula is a wisp of interstellar gas through which the cluster

happens to be

> passing, genetically unrelated to the stars. On the other hand, the
> brightness of some of the Pleiades (e.g. Pleione) varies

considerably over

> the years.
>

Six/seven stuff, lost Pleiade, old IE names etc. I did think I
recalled something:

http://www.alcyone.com/info.html

Esp. interesting is the stuff about the moon not being able to occult
the constellation.


More on the fantastic side:

http://www.grazian-
archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/sb_docs/sb_10.pdf


Torsten