What was that group of stars near the September, 1996 lunar eclipse?

The Moon was in Aquarius at the time, and I cannot find any particular asterism that you might have been referring to. I was hoping it might have been the Hyades or Pleiades star clusters, but they are in Taurus! The Praesepe 'Beehive' cluster is in Cancer, so I don't really know what it is that you could have seen.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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