If you enjoy observing the night sky with your binoculars or maybe you even like to take pictures or make small videos with your digital camera binoculars, then this whole week is the best time for you to go out at night.

If after sunset you look west then your gaze will be immediately drawn to the brilliant Venus. But if you look at the sky when the twilight deepens, then you'll be surprised and amazed with a view of a softly glowing group of stars located above Venus. This group is known as the Pleiades. It is a featured player in a timeless story of danger and deliverance. Take a look into Greek mythology, and find the goddesses, called Seven Sisters. You'll be dazzled with what you find out.

When you look at the Pleiades without your astronomical binoculars, you'll most likely see only the brightest six stars of the cluster. Binoculars will help you reveal many more stars. In long exposure images, the Pleiades can be seen in all their glory - dozens of stars encased in the fluorescing gas from which they were formed.

Any night of this week, close to the Pleiades, you'll also easily find the Hunter-Orion (if you read the story of Pleiades from the Greek mythology, you already know who that is). If you're viewing the Pleiades with your binoculars, be sure to turn them toward the three stars that comprise the "Orion's belt". This enormous gas cloud shows up quite nicely in binoculars, and sometimes can be glimpsed naked-eye on dark, moonless nights.