Need a telescope or binoculars to see the ... stars will also be occulted during the moon's 2-to-3-hour passage through the cluster. The next Pleiades occultation that will favor North America ...

Below the Pleiades is Uranus ... blazing at magnitude –4.8. Let’s start here — through a telescope, the bright planet’s disk stretches an impressive 43” and shows off a crescent phase ...

Center the Pleiades in your eyepiece ... which is 11° high and magnitude –4.7. If you can spot Mercury through a telescope, you’ll see that the tiny planet’s disk — some 9” wide ...