Friday evening February 23rd the 8-day old waxing gibbous Moon will be about 6o from the reddish star Aldebaran, part of the open star cluster the Hyades. The brighter stars of the Hyades are arranged in a v-shape that is used to represent the face of Taurus the Bull. The point of the V is the Bull’s nose and the reddish star Aldebaran is one of the Bull’s eyes, often depicted as the ‘angry eye’ of the Bull.
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