Pleiades M45

This painting will be part of a long list of the Messier objects, which is a list consist of nearly 110 objects.
I will be happy if I finish the list before the end of the year!

I started the list with the object I most observed and easiest to pick up from the sky. It is a winter object, but can be observe before sunrise as early as the Summer.

The object in Arabic called Al thuria. This is a name for a hanging lamp, not any form of lamp, but decorative lamp light that hang from the ceiling. Another lore of this object is that those stars are a beautiful young girl, and the girl is running away from the Star Aldebaran which is a very wealthy old man.

A note worth mentioning about the western lore of this object is, Atlas and Pleione are the stars at the bottom lifting the seven sisters, their daughters, and protecting them.

I will write more in details in an encyclopedic post for this object, as for now, enjoy the artistic surreal feeling that the painting gives off.

-Ahmad