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Good evening! :-) The Venus Pleiades Cluster conjunction is looking fine! :-) I just stepped outside and snapped a few pictures with my Canon T1i set in manual mode at 2.5 secs exposure and ISO 1600. I hooked it up to my 66 mm f/5.9 William Optics Zenithstar SD Doublet APO Refractor Telescope! In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were seven sisters: Maia, Electra, Alcyone, Taygete, Asterope, Celaeno and Merope. Their parents were Atlas, a Titan who held up the sky, and the oceanid Pleione, the protectress of sailing. After a chance meeting with the hunter Orion, the Pleiades and their mother became the object of his pursuit. Enamoured with the young women he pursued them over the face of the Earth. In pity for their plight, Zeus changed them into a flock of doves, which he set in the heavens. Thus the olympian added the penalty of the absence of his wife and family to the Titan's original punishment of eternally supporting the heavens from the Earth.