[Boot Hill]

blam's article sez:   "In the plate's center is a representation of the star cluster Pleiades..."

Pleiades

Oh yeah, blam, dead ringer for Pleiades, LOL! Looks more like someone's imagination has gotten the better of their common sense!

I don't get it, blam, this is not the first time you've posted this kind of Art (Bell) nouveau, astronomical pseudo-science. What's up with that?

--Boot Hill

[blam]

"I don't get it, blam, this is not the first time you've posted this kind of Art (Bell) nouveau, astronomical pseudo-science. What's up with that? "

Lighten up a little. If you'll check page 34 of the December edition of Scientific American you'll find essentially the same article. Art Bell? Don't know. I post'em you decide.

[battousai]

Thanks for the side by side comparison pics. I was just thinking that as well, where exactly were the Pleiades on this so called accurate representaiton of the heavens, if it's that cluster of 7 dots, then it doesn't look anything like the Pleides, but more like... well ... a collection of 7 dots.