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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2911585, member: 27832&quot;]Especially in these days of light pollution. I stayed out all night one night under a dark sky for a meteor shower in the late 1970s; my youthful eyes, <i>fully</i> dark-adapted, let me see <b>eleven</b> of the Pleiades.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are cross-cultural stories of a &quot;lost&quot; Pleiad, and astrophysics says it&#039;s plausible -- the seventh-brightest star in the cluster is surrounded by gas shells, indicating that it may have been brighter in early historic times.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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