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Title: What constellation is this?
Post by: SiOuxTribe on Feb 28, 2006, 11:50 PM
(http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/faculty/kelly/blogs/h100sp06/archives/stars.gif)
Title: Re: What constellation is this?
Post by: dragonboy on Feb 28, 2006, 11:52 PM
The Weeping Virgin? Either that or the Jack Daniels?
I'm pretty sure it's one of those 2 lesser known constellations...
Title: Re: What constellation is this?
Post by: ali on Mar 01, 2006, 12:14 AM
that's not the little-known jim james angel constellation is it?
it's either that, or the very rare "random-star" constellation


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Title: Re: What constellation is this?
Post by: Mr. T. on Mar 01, 2006, 07:23 AM
Could it be Cassiopeia?

Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus, the Ethiopian king of Joppa (now known as Jaffa, in Israel), and the mother of Andromeda. The queen was both beautiful and vain, and the story of how her vanity caused great distress is told in relation to the constellation Andromeda.

After promising her daughter in marriage to Perseus, Cassiopeia had second thoughts. She convinced one of Poseidon's sons, Agenor, to disrupt the ceremony by claiming Andromeda for himself. Agenor arrived with an entire army, and a fierce struggle ensued.

In the battle Cassiopeia is said to have cried "Perseus must die". At any rate it was Perseus who was victorious, with the help of the Gorgon's head.

Perseus had recently slain Medusa, the Gorgon, and had put its head in a bed of coral. He retrieved the head and waved it in midst of the warring wedding party, instantly turning them all to stone. In the group was both Cepheus and Cassiopeia.

A contrite Poseidon put both father and mother in the heavens. But because of Cassiopeia's vanity, he placed her in a chair which revolves around the Pole Star, so half the time she's obliged to sit upside down.  

(http://www.cassiopee.u-psud.fr/images/Cassiopeia.gif)