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Constellation
Cassiopeia - The Queen of Ethiopia
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Object name: Cassiopeia
Equatorial: RA: 01h 00m 59s Dec: +62°13'58"(current)
Equatorial 2000: RA: 01h 00m 36s Dec: +62°12'00"
Sky Database: Constellation
Abbreviation: Cas
Genitive Form: Cassiopeiae
Description: Cassiopeia, the Queen of Ethiopia
Pronunciation: KAS' ih oh PEE yuh
Genitive Pronunciation: kas ih oh PEE' yee
Mythology
Cassiopeia
wife of King Cepheus was banished to the sky as
punishment for her vanity. She had boasted that she was more beautiful the
sea nymphs known as the Nereids. The sea god Poseidon punished her by
sending a sea monster Cetus the sea monster to devastate
the coast of King Cepheus' country.
Andromeda the
daughter of Cassiopeia and
King Cepheus was to be sacrificed to the monster,
however she was saved by Perseus - The Rescuer (see
the story of Andromeda).
Cassiopeia was punished by being placed in the
sky near the north celestial pole around which she revolves, upside down, then
right side up, from night to night.
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