12/04/2025
🌕✨ December 3 — Tonight the Moon Meets the Seven Sisters ✨🌌
Tonight, December 3, 2025, the sky is preparing one of the most magical winter displays of the year:
a nearly full Moon — glowing at 99% illumination — rising right beside the Pleiades, the legendary Seven Sisters.
Picture this:
A golden Moon lifting above snow-covered mountains…
An observatory dome pointed toward the sky…
And the icy-blue shimmer of the Pleiades glowing just beside it.
It looks like a painting brought to life — and it’s happening tonight.
🌙 A Rare Lunar Occultation
For millions across North America, Europe, and northern Africa, this isn’t just a beautiful alignment —
it’s a lunar occultation.
The Moon will slide directly in front of several major Pleiades stars, briefly hiding them behind its glowing edge:
• Electra
• Merope
• Maia
• Alcyone
In cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Moon will drift straight through the heart of the cluster —
a slow, silent eclipse of starlight.
Stars will vanish along the Moon’s shadowed limb and reappear minutes later on the opposite side.
Even a simple pair of binoculars can capture these moments despite the Moon’s brightness.
🌌 The Seven Sisters
Located 444 light-years away in Ta**us, the Pleiades are a young, vibrant group of hot blue stars — a cluster celebrated in mythologies across the world.
Though known as the “Seven Sisters,” the cluster contains more than a thousand stars, with only six or seven visible to the naked eye.
✨ Don’t Miss Tonight’s Cosmic Meeting
Wherever you are — inside or outside the occultation zone — step outside after dark and look toward the eastern sky.
The Moon rising beside the Pleiades is one of the most breathtaking celestial pairings of the entire year…
a meeting of warm lunar gold and ancient blue starlight.
A quiet December night…
A dance of light across the sky…
A moment you’ll remember long after it fades. 🌙💫
