What is this constellation called, if it is known.?

Hello, i live in the south east of england and to the North East of me up in space is this constellation. it is very small and tight nit. image provided bellow.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/Y鈥?/a>



does anyone know the name or where i can find it please.





Thank you.What is this constellation called, if it is known.?Those are the Pleiades, a star cluster, in the constellation Taurus, not the asterism known as the Little Dipper.



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It's a star cluster called the Pleiades. It's part of the constellation Taurus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(s鈥?/a>

http://astrophotography.aa6g.org/Astroph鈥?/a>What is this constellation called, if it is known.?Yup, the Pleiades. There's a Japanese car company that uses them as their logo - Subaru.

http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/pleiades/What is this constellation called, if it is known.?
It is not a constellation; it is an open star cluster called "the Pleiades," located in the constellation Taurus.What is this constellation called, if it is known.?they probably are pleaides, ursa minor's arm is extended more, i'm a little intoxicated ATMWhat is this constellation called, if it is known.?
The stars you show are called the Pleiades (star cluster) in close up detail



Image: http://server1.sky-map.org/imageView?ima鈥?/a>



try an interactive star map.



try these sites to find your way to those cluster of stars.



Okay to find your way around the sky use this site. it show all stars seen from the british isles.



http://www.astronomynow.com/sky_chart.sh鈥?/a>



Next try this site first enter london as you location. with a northern horizon. Then enter the time you have to calculate it to the closet time you saw them in 2 hour increment. If you saw them at 4 pm and your look at the site at 8pm using the drop down you would enter Now + 20 hours to show how the sky would look at the same time the next day.



http://www.relativedata.com/mystarslive



Once you are familar with the north eastern sky around the time you saw them. Try this site it has alot of information you can enter but that aside it allows you to zoom in so you can see small groups or clusters of stars. All you need to do is click: Set for Near by City (this will open location from around the world list) choose London UK under the Europe list. In either "make sky map" or "make horizon map" and it will show the stars. It allows you to pan around and zoom in or out but if you mess round to much with the options list while you pan around you can become lost very quickly. It offers alot of information when you first make a sky map but the option list will help remove most of it so you can find the part of the sky you saw those stars and zoom and see if they have a name. What is useful is the pan left or pan right while in the horizon mode.



http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/





Another site you may want to use is. Again this has plenty of options. But one of the cool things it has is photo's of the actual sky from nasa. If you right click an object and select the photographic sky survey it will show all the stars in the area. These photos have loads of stars in them.



http://www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php



Finally the stars you are looking for. If right click anywhere on the map and open the photographic sky survey and enter these coordinates 03h 46m 24" 06'N in you will find a cluster of stars



Happy star hunting
It is Pleiades as everyone said. from the left these are: Atlas, Alcyone (the brightest), Maia (upper one), Taygeta (upper one), Merope and Electra - the last two are lower ones.

It is in the constellation of Taurus. In the Indian system that developed parallel to the Greek system (with lot of give and take) it is an 'Asterism' called 'Krtthika'. There are 27 asterisms (Nakshatras) with individual names and Moon spends a night with each of these. When FullMoon is with this asterism that month is called (15 days before the FullMoon and 15 days after) as 'Karthika' derived from the asterism's name. Presently we are going thru' the month of 'Karthika', that started the day after the NewMoon marked as the Deepawali (Diwali), the festival of lights and fire-works.

There is a story about the asterism 'Krtthika'. When God Siva (one of the trinity) sat in penance /meditation in the Himalayas, a demon was devastating the heavens. The heaven-dwellers appealed to Brahma, the other God in the trinity. He said Siva's son thru' Parvati will only be able to kill the demon and none else. Parvati was serving Siva already, who hardly noticed her.Much has happened to bring Siva around in which 'Cupid' (Manmatha) also did his deed and lost his life. Consummation finally took place following marriage but Parvati didn't bear the child but was borne by 6 mothers (there are 6 visible in the asterism) who were the wives of the divine sages. There are 7 sages(7 stars in the Great Bear constellation) but one has the wife nearby always (Mizar %26amp; Alcor). the other 6 went to bear the child in the wombs and delivered a six-faced boy, who grew up, led the heavenly army to slay the demon. He, the six-faced Karthikeya (born of Krtthika) is the patron-deity of Tamil people. There are thousands of temples for him, one in a grotto in Malaysia, where the traditional forms of rituals like body piercing and tongue piercing can be witnessed. Many Tamilians have his name; as 'Six-faced' (Arumugam, Shannmukham). Also the one wife of the sage Alcor, refusing to leave the side of her husband Mizar, is shown to every marrying Hindu couple as the ideal couple and 'model' to follow as part of marriage ritual.