Have a Conjunction with the Night Sky

According to the folks over at Spaceweather.com (who ping me daily with cool and useful information), there’s going to be a neat conjunction in the western sky tonight (for those of you readers who haven’t experienced sunset yet).  The crescent Moon, Mercury, and the Pleiades star cluster will be grouped together after sunset.  So, go out after sunset, look west, and watch the western sky in the gathering gloom!  Read more about this at the link above.

As much as I like spring and summer, I’m always a little triste to see the Pleiades disappear from our evening and early morning skies for a few months. They’ll reappear in the night sky in the mid-autumn (for Northern Hemisphere gazers, mid-spring for the folks south of the equator), and they’ll be a harbinger of brighter, glitterier things to come (like Orion, yah!!!).   So, I’ll check it out tonight, provided it’s not cloudy.