Hi. I was observing last night with my old Coulter 10" reflector and sat down to scan the sky between the Double Cluster and the Pleiades. I started wondering whether there was some sort of patterning to the clusters- it almost seemed as if stars were distributed along long strands, like frog eggs- in some radially extended, in others more spirally- the Pleiades seemed especially like the latter.
Is this an optical illusion caused by the mind's insistance on making sense of randomness, or is there really something going on here? Thanks.
Jess Tauber
Is this an optical illusion caused by the mind's insistance on making sense of randomness, or is there really something going on here? Thanks.
Jess Tauber