1. CASSIOPEIA  Michelle Jung  Amanda Kidder  David Pharis

2. MYTHOLOGY  Fictional Queen of Ethiopia  Wife of Cepheus the King and Mother of Andromeda the Princess  Very vain, always looked at herself in the mirror  Said she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs  Also said her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids  She was put up into the stars as punishment

3. CONSTELLATION MYTHOLOGY  In the sky, still sitting on her throne looking in the mirror  Sentenced to the Northern Sky  Clings to the north celestial pole as to not fall off for the half year when she is not visible  Poseidon (who imprisoned her) said Andromeda would be food for the sea monster Cetus off the Ethiopian coast  Andromeda later rescued and married to Perseus

4. BRIGHT STARS IN CASSIOPEIA  Schedar (double star): Alpha Cassiopeiae, alpha star  Caph (“hand”): Beta Cassiopeiae, white-hued star  Gamma Cassiopeiae (shell star): variable star, somewhat unstable and periodically eject rings of material  Ruchbah (“knee”): Algol-type eclipsing variable star, blue-white hue and it is 99 light-years from Earth

5. INTERESTING OBJECTS IN CASSIOPEIA  Messier 52  open cluster 5,000 light years distant  can be seen with binoculars.  Messier 103  open cluster 10,000 light years distant  Contains 172 stars  Cassiopeia A  supernova remnant  known for being the brightest astronomical radio source in the sky.  The PacMan Nebula  large gas cloud (star formation has recently taken place)  also known as NGC 281  White Rose Cluster  also known as NGC 7789  open star cluster 7,600 light years distant  NGC 185 (Caldwell 18)  dwarf spheroidal galaxy 2.08 million light years distant  NGC 147 (Caldwell 17)  dwarf spheroidal galaxy 2.53 light years distant