Locomotoring

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Our Pleiades

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These photons from Pleiades landed on our camera sensor, so there!

Pleiades captured from Panamint Valley

We first noticed Pleiades in Anza Borrego, about the same time last year. We were camping (link). I add the photo below of Pleiades that we took back then.

Can you see the tiny blue dipper, to the right and beyond the bright object (Jupiter)? That is Pleiades (or Messier 45 or M45). In Indian mythologies, this tiny dipper (Krittika) is composed of wives of saints who form the large dipper, Saptarshi Mandala (i.e. Ursa Major). More on this folklore here.

Our stars bind us. There is perhaps no where else in the universe where the stars looks the same as it does to earthlings. Pleiades is bright enough that they have been part of ours folklores (link) since the beginning of our story telling.

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November 19, 2025 at 8:36 am

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