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December is a prime month for star watchers willing to brave the cold under clearing-skies for a fine view of some of the brightest and most interesting objects in the night sky.
For some of us the skies of December are filled with jewels. They are best appreciated with binoculars or a small telescope, some of them are visible to the naked eye. Possibly the easiest “celestial jewel” to spot in the December sky is the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. The Pleiades are visible high in the eastern sky after sunset throughout the month.
lb most unaided eyes, this open cluster appears to only have five stars, but binoculars reveal dozens of hot blue stars. A small, widefield telescope reveals hundreds of stars against a dark blue background. Under dark skies the observer may be able to detect a faint bluish nebulosity around the Pleiades.
Behind the Pleiades is a more obvious but less wellknown star cluster known as the Hyades. The Hyades is actually part of the V-shape that marks the head of Taurus the Bull. The Hyades is spread over a much wider area of sky than the Pleiades. This group of stars is best viewed with the naked eye or binoculars.
Another open star cluster that can be detected with the naked eye is the famous
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