Ad Astra Observatory

I was able to correct an error in the Wikipedia entry for the Pleiades!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_%28mythology%29#Mythology

The original author thought the Pleiades were a summer asterism, but
Hesiod’s poem makes more sense with the Pleiades as a winter asterism,
which they are:

“And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas,

when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion
and plunge into the misty deep
and all the gusty winds are raging,
then do not keep your ship on the wine-dark sea
but, as I bid you, remember to work the land.”
the Pleiades would “flee” and “plunge into the misty deep” when they set
ahead of Orion. This doesn’t happen until Springtime, when it’s both
definitely a good time to “remember to work the land”, and the seas would

tend to be at their stormiest…

J