Cassiopeia

 "King of the Sky" Latin meaning: Ethipoian Queen   http://www.ufrsd.net/staffwww/stefanl/myths/cassiopeia.jpg ** Mythology **: Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus, the mother of Andromidea, and the ruler of Ethiopia. She was known as the most beautiful queen out of all the sea nymphs. However, Cassiopeia was also very vain, it was just part of her nature. She had promised her daughter to marry Persus, but she had second thoughts. Cassiopeia then convinced Posideon's son to marry Andromida instead. Agenor, Posideon's son, had brought a whole army with him, but a fierce fight ensued. She has believed to have said "Persus must die." But, he was victorious. Persus had close after be-headed Medusa and but her in a bed of coral. He took her head out and waved it infront of everyone to show that he had won the battle. Cassipoeia, and the rest of his enemies, all turned to stone in sight of the head. ROMAN: ** In Rome, she was known as "The Boastful Queen" ** http://www.dibonsmith.com/cas_con.htm ^*This is more information on the constellation and some of the datails of how she got put into the sky*   http://www.barransclass.com/astr1070/const/Gilmore/Cassiopeia.html ^this link shows all the coordinates of all the big stars in Cassiopeia and the distances from different constellations.  Cassiopiea is one of the 88 modern constellations and was one of the 48 listed by Ptolomey. It is one of the most visible constellations with the human eye, and also it is one of the most beautiful of the northern Hemisphere. The constellation is in the shape of a "W" and is in part of the Persus constellations. The constellation is best viewed in November around 7 o'clock. It will no longer be in the sky after the 30th. It is directly across from the Big Dipper and 28 degrees from the North Star. The declination is 22 01. Some of the names of the stars in Cassiopeia are: Segin, Caph, Shedir, Achrid, Markaf, Ruchbac, Gamma, and Kappa. The constellation is not classified as a separate constellation, but a part of a bigger set of constellations. Cassiopeia is situated between Persus and Cephus. Alpha Cas, (which in the Greek alphabet) is the brightest star in Cassiopeia.

<span style="color: #cf83e2; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">*History!* <span style="color: #49df9f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #dd2c6d; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The very first supernova in Cassiopeia was in 1572 and lasted about 6 months to a year. At this time in history, the celestial sphere was created all at once within six days. In 1600, William Shakespeare, mentioned that the supernova was just a "very bright star" and its the opening scene in __Hamlet__. Cassipoiea A exploded as a supernova around 340 years ago, and aroubd 1655 A.D it took about 10,000 years to reach us <span style="color: #49df9f; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #b314e1; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #ee3fe3; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">^here is a picture of the supernova <span style="color: #5c2caa; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #b314e1; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">http://www.virginmedia.com/images/death-star-4x3.jpg

<span style="color: #4000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**__ How to find this constellation :__** Locate Ursa Major; the pointers of it point to the North Star and Cassiopeia is on the other side of it. The Milkyway Galaxy runs right through this constellation. <span style="color: #b314e1; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> This wikispace was made by: Emily Fallucchi I think that this project helped me with my constellation knowledge and how to use wikispaces. It was a lot of fun to research and learn new things about the other constellations. I think that it would be alot of fun to make another one on weather or something.