During the total lunar eclipse of November 28/29, 1993, the moon's coppery orb appeared suspended among the sparkling stars of Taurus, the bull.  To the moon's lower left lies the V-shaped star grouping known as the Hyades, and to its upper right, the star cluster called the Pleiades.  These, of course, are trillions of miles farther than the moon, our nearest celestial neighbor.