Positioned just to the lower right of the crescent moon is a soft, hazy smudge of light: the Pleiades, one of the most storied star clusters in human history. What appears to the unaided eye as a delicate blur is actually a congregation of more than 1,000 blue-white stars, known colloquially as the Seven Sisters. Their most prominent members carry names drawn from Greek mythology — Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Asterope and Merope — though suburban light pollution or an untrained eye might reduce the cluster to a faint smear. Binoculars will reveal their full, shimmering splendor.
