Fixed Star Name : ELECTRA

Location Name : 17 Taurus
Apparent Magnitude : 3.8 Spectral Class : B5
Right Ascension : 03h 44m Latitude : +04.11'
Declination (1900) : +23.48' Declination (2000) : +24.06'
 
Longitudinal Position (in 1900) : 28 Taurus 01
Longitudinal Position (in 2000) : 29 Taurus 25
Its Planetary Nature : Moon - Mars

About this star :

One of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters.

Zeus fathered her son, Dardanus, founder of Troy. This star is not visible to the naked eye; Electra is the missing Pleiad who withdrew her light in sorrow at the destruction of Llium, the house of Dardanus. Electra, they say, left her sisters and took a place in the Arctic circle. That is why they sing:

...In Troy's last hour...

Electra shrouded her form in mist and cloud, and left the Pleiad-band...

Still rises up...their bright troop in the skies; but she alone hides viewless ever since the town of her son Dardanus in ruin fell...

Electra had another son, Iasion and a third, Samothrace but more frequently this third child is named as Harmonia.  (Allen).


See Alcyone for the astrological influences.

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