Sunday, February 12, 2012

Where can i find really good information about the constellation of Cassiopeia?

I am doing a project for my Astronomy class where can I find the mythological story of Cassiopeia? Location? Pictures? messier objects?



If you can help with this I would be most thankfull. :)Where can i find really good information about the constellation of Cassiopeia?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_鈥?/a>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_52

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_103

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constel鈥?/a>

http://www.dibonsmith.com/cas_con.htm



Long ago in ethiopia Cassiopeia has been the wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda. Because she thought herself more beautiful than the daughters of Nereus, a god of the sea, she challanged the anger of the god Poseidon. To punish her, her daughter was chained to a rock of the coast as a sacrifice for a sea monster. Andromeda was saved from death by Perseus. (Publius Ovidius Naso: Metamophoses, IV)

To learn humility Cassiopeia was banned to the sky hanging half of the time head downward.

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