The cluster contains thousands of stars, of which only a handful are commonly visible to the unaided eye. XEphem charts showing the cluster's position. The image at the top of the page shows the central part of the cluster, where the brightest stars are found. This color photograph was taken in three filters, each exposed for about a half-hour, by David Malin with the UK Schmidt Telescope. The image is roughly 1.5 degrees wide, or three times the angular diameter of the moon.
North is up and east is to the left.
Data for these stars are listed in a table below. In a crude fashion, Flamsteed's stars correspond to the best the eye can do. The Greek-letter designations in Johann Bayer's 1603 Uranometria are also commonly used to label visible stars, but Bayer's catalog doesn't go as faint as Flamsteed's, and consequently only the brightest Pleiad has a Bayer designation. More modern Henry Draper catalog numbers are also given, in addition to apparent visual magnitude, spectral type, and cluster membership status. Additional information on each star is available by selecting the appropriate link.