Cassiopeia
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Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern hemisphere, first charted by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
Cassiopeia
Transit Date of principal star:
1 October
Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus, the Ethiopian king of Joppa (now known as Jaffa, in Israel), and the mother of Andromeda.
Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia, the Queen.
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Cassiopeia
A constellation best seen in November in the northeastern sky.
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Cassiopeia
Abbreviation: Cas
Genitive: Cassiopeiae
Translation: Queen of Ethiopia or Andromeda's Mother
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Mu Cassiopeiae A
This yellow-orange star of spectral and luminosity type G5 VIp appears to a subdwarf and a halo star.
AO Cassiopeiae
One of the most massive and luminous binary systems known.
Queen Cassiopeia
Constellation Of A Vain Woman
The Cassiopeia constellation represents the queen of Ethiopia, a mythological land of Greek lore, not the country in Africa.
Cassiopeia, the queen:
An ancient constellation that is part of the story of Perseus and Andromeda.
Queen Cassiopeia, whose vanity is the stuff of legend, wants you to know that the upcoming cold season in the Northern Hemsiphere elevates the impeccably beautiful Queen to her moment of glory.
6 CAS (6 Cassiopeiae). The Star of the Week celebrates its 300th star with a magnificent white class A (A3) supergiant, one of the most luminous stars of the Galaxy. Don't let its apparent fifth magnitude (at 5.43, near sixth) dimness fool you.
Cassiopeia
Abbreviation: Cas English name: Cassiopeia Coordinates see Stellar data
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Named stars in Cephus(Greek alphabet)
Aderamin (α Cep), Alfirk (β Cep), Alrai (El Rai, γ Cep), Erakis (Garnet Star, μ Cep), Kurhah (ξ Cep).
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Cassiopeia A
Through a series of observations in 2004, the Chandra X-ray Observatory accumulated a million seconds of observations on Cassiopeia A, a remnant of a supernova explosion.
Cassiopeia was the vain and boastful wife of King Cepheus of Ethiopia, who lies next to her in the sky. They are the only husband-and-wife couple among the constellations.
Cassiopeia is marked by its W-shape in the sky, with stars ranging from magnitude 2 to 3.5 marking each turn in the W. Like Ursa Major Cassiopeia is circumpolar and can be seen all year round from northern latitudes.
Cassiopeia is one of the stars that orbits the Polestar throughout the year. It is shaped like a W, with a makeup of five second- and third-magnitude stars, and has been a well-known constellation since ancient times.
Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia was a queen in Greek mythology, and the constellation named for her is shaped like the letter W. Polaris is above the first "V" of this letter.
Cassiopeia
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AO Cassiopeiae
A binary in which the larger, less massive, hot primary is highly distorted, and in which rapid mass exchange is occurring.
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CASSIOPEIA
Cassiopeia is an easily-seen that is in the far northern sky. It circles the polestar ( ) throughout the year and also straddles the .
CASSIOPEIA
Cassiopeia is an easily-seen constellation that is in the far northern sky. It circles the polestar (Polaris) throughout the year and also straddles the Milky Way.
Cassiopeia, a queen of ancient Ethiopia, was a very beautiful woman. Unfortunately, she was also very vain and spent much of her time bragging about her beauty.
Cassiopeia
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Cassiopeia A is one of the most well known supernova remnants. Hot gas was created when ejected material from the dying star smashed into the surrounding gas and dust at high speed.
Cassiopeia
satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
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CASSIOPEIA it is always opposite the Big Dipper - just draw a line from Phad through Polaris and continue it on about the same distance and you will come to CASSIOPEIA.
When Cassiopeia is seen as a "W" this is the 2nd star from the right.
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Alamach or Alamak ...
epsilon Cassiopeiae
(Named for Apollo 1 astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom)
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Cassiopeia. On the left is what you actually see in the sky. On the right is a diagram of the official constellation. The splotches labeled M52 and M103 are distant star clusters. Photo and diagram courtesy of O.
see Tycho's Star. [H76]
WZ Cassiopeiae
A carbon star (the most super-rich carbon star known) with a very high abundance of lithium. Its effective temperature is 2420 K. [H76]
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Cas, Cass (NASA SP-7, 1965) International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Cassiopeia. See constellation. cascade shower (NASA SP-7, 1965) A group occurrence of cosmic rays. Also called air shower.
In the sky, it is located south of the constellation Cassiopeia and west of the constellation Perseus. Within the same field of view from earth, the Andromeda galaxy can also be seen. Andromeda constellation (NASA SP-7, 1965) (abbr And, Andr).
1572 - Tycho Brahe discovers his supernova in Cassiopeia,
1604 - Johannes Kepler's supernova in Serpens is observed,
1862 - Alvan Clark observes Sirius B, ...
19 northern: - Ursa major, Ursa minor, Bootes, Draco, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Perseus, Triangulum, Pegasus, Delphinus, Auriga, Hercules, Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila, Sagitta, Corona and Serpentarius; 13 central or zodiacal: - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, ...
11, 1572, he suddenly saw a "new star," brighter than Venus and where no star was supposed to be, in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Marfark Theta Cassiopeiae
Marfik Lambda Ophiuchi
Markab Alpha Pegasi and HR 2948
Matar Eta Pegasi
Mebsuta Epsilon Geminorum
Media Delta Sagittarii
Megrez Delta Ursae Majoris
Meissa Lambda Orionis
Mekbuda Zeta Geminorum
Menchib Xi Persei ...
Andromeda was the daughter of King Cephus and Queen Cassiopeia. She was a reputed to eb a particularly beautiful lady. Now Cassiopeia, being a typical mother, claimed that Andromeda was even more beautiful than the sea-nymphs.
One rather confusing SNR is Cas A, a SNR in the constellation of Cassiopeia (that's where the "Cas" comes from in its name). This is a very strong radio source, as well as a strong x-ray source (see Figure 7). Obviously it is still rather hot.
M52 is an open cluster of stars situated within the constellation of Cassiopeia. It can be seen against the backdrop of a Milky Way field.
Finally, he saw the supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia of 1572. He later wrote in his book De Stella Nova ("On the New Star"), "I noticed that a new and unusual star, surpassing all the other stars in brilliancy, ...
Among the constellations the Milky Way passes through are Carina, Crux (the Southern Cross), Sagittarius (where it is brightest), Scorpius, Aquila, Cygnus, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Auriga, and Gemini.
5 visual magnitude star in eastern Cassiopeia at the antipodal point of Alpha Centauri's current RA and Dec. at 02h 39m 35s +60° 50' (2000). This place is close to the 3.4 magnitude star ε Cassiopeiae.
It extends through the constellations Perseus, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus.
The supernova Cassiopeia A (Cas A) apparently went unnoticed optically, although modern radio studies suggest that the first light from the explosion should have reached Earth midway through the seventeenth century.
The Arabs sometimes referred to the area of Cassiopeia as Kaff' al Hadib, "The Hand Stained with Henna." The usual name of the star, Caph, derives from this traditional name for the constellation.
ANDROMEDA
Andromeda (the princess, the daughter of Cassiopeia in mythology) is a northern hemisphere constellation. Alpha Andromedae (called Sirrah, meaning "Horse's navel") is the same as Delta Pegasi (from the constellation Pegasus).
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traverses the constellations of Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Pegasus, Pisces, Cetus, Sculptor, and Phoenix, and as expected, you will find the first several NGC objects solely in these constellations.
Canopus (Alpha Carinae)
Carinae Delta (there is no "Delta" star in the modern Carina constellations)
Cassiopeia (Cassiopeiae) Centaurus (Centauri) ...
An*drom"e*da (#), n. [L., fr. Gr. , the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When bound to a rock and exposed to a sea monster, she was delivered by Perseus.]
1. Astron.
The Perseids' radiant is in the constellation Perseus, just below the familiar 'W' of the constellation of Cassiopeia. At this time of year this can be seen reasonably high in the north-eastern sky at nightfall.
If you are fortunate enough to view a dark sky outside of the glare of the city lights, you will see this milky band running through the constellations Cassiopeia, Perseus, Taurus, Monoceros, Vela, Crux, Norma, Sagittarius, Scutum, Aguila, Cygnus, ...
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