CASSIOPEIA  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the wife of See also:

• CEPHEUS

Cepheus, and See also:

• MOTHER

mother of See also:

• ANDROMEDA

Andromeda; in See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, a See also:

• CONSTELLATION (from the Lat. constellatus, studded with stars; co'n, with, and Stella, a star)

constellation of the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern hemisphere, mentioned by See also:

• EUDOXUS

Eudoxus (4th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C.) and See also:

• ARATUS

Aratus (3rd century B.c.) . See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy catalogued 13 stars in this constellation, Tycho See also:

• BRAHE, PER, COUNT (1602-1680)
• BRAHE, TYCHO (1546-1601)

Brahe 46, and See also:

• HEVELIUS [HEVEL or H6WELCKE], JOHANN (1611—1687)

Hevelius 37 . Its most interesting stars are: Nova Cassiopeiae, a " new " See also:

• STAR

star, which burst out with extraordinary brilliancy in 1572, when it was observed by Tycho Brahe,but gradually diminished in brightness, ultimately vanishing in about eighteen months; a-Cassiopeiae and R-Cassiopeiae are variable stars, the former irregular, the latter having a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period; ri-Cassiopeiae, a binary star, having components of magnitudes 32 and 72; o--Cassiopeiae, a See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double star, one being See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white and of magnitude 5, the other See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue and of magnitude 71 .