I find it somewhat quixotic that an asterism so well known in Western culture as "The Pleiades" (note the definite article!) should be catalogued in Stellarium as "Maia nebula" which is definitely is not, no more than Charles DeGaulle should be referred to by the grand dimensions of his schnozz.
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I agree Maia is one of the lesser know members of the Seven Sisters. Merope would have been better. However it can be found by its Messier number M45 or you can edit the ngc2000names.dat (Wordpad will edit it) and replace the reference to Maia with:
Pleides M45(Seven sisters) 1432
That is what I did in my program.
Barry
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I find it somewhat quixotic that an asterism so well known in Western culture as "The Pleiades" (note the definite article!) should be catalogued in Stellarium as "Maia nebula" which is definitely is not, no more than Charles DeGaulle should be referred to by the grand dimensions of his schnozz.
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I agree Maia is one of the lesser know members of the Seven Sisters. Merope would have been better. However it can be found by its Messier number M45 or you can edit the ngc2000names.dat (Wordpad will edit it) and replace the reference to Maia with:
Pleides M45(Seven sisters) 1432
That is what I did in my program.
Barry
I agree.