In case anyone's interested, the Pleiades are passing through the wide-field 'LASCO C3' camera on the SOHO spacecraft. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/ Pretty amazing to see stars down to mag 8 or so within a few degrees of the Sun. And its never cloudy! \Brian -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.