With your naked eye, look at the cluster and draw what you see. Compare your drawing with this star chart. Match the 6 bright stars that form a dipper shape. Now with this chart as a guide, see if you can find some of the fainter stars. The numbers beside each star indicate how bright the star is.
Lower numbers indicate brighter stars.
To see a faint Pleiad, the sky must be clear and dark. You can use this test to measure the quality of your viewing on any night when the Pleiades are high in the sky. Plot these points on a graph with Distance in KM's on the vertical axis and Millions in Population on the horizontal axis and connect them. Look up the population of cities close to you. Using your graph, find the distance associated with each population.