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imapassenger1 t1_j941m0f wrote

Very nice. Also known as the Seven Sisters but normally you can only see six. I think there's a star in your photo which could be the seventh.
Do people call this the little saucepan/pot/dipper? Here in the Southern Hemisphere (Australia) many people call Orion "the pot" because it's upside down here. So this constellation can be called the little pot. You have the Big Dipper of course, which we can't see.

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rubicube1 t1_j94c19c wrote

There's actually nine named ones. In addition to the sisters, their parents Atlas and Pleione are actually two of the brightest seven. Asterope and Celaeno are the eighth and ninth brightest stars

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Smugg-Fruit t1_j961s44 wrote

Alcyone is the brightest of the 9.

Atlas and Pleione are the two stars close to one another on the bottom

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