June 2015 Volume 21 Number 12 Page 1

Star Gazer News

Newsletter of the Delmarva Stargazers www.delmarvastargazers.org

Upcoming Events: Meeting ! June 1

st 7 PM 1st Preb. Church

Observing ! June 19-20th Dusk Eq. Cntr & BB

From the Prez…. Our first star party at Trap Pond

State Park is over. The weather did not co-

operate but what is new about that! Thurs-

day night the sky was clear but the trans-

parency was off just a bit from the mois-

ture in the air. The dew was minimal over-

night. On Friday night the transparency was

good but we had about 40 % cloud cover—a

lot of sucker holes. Once an object was in

the eyepiece, you had a very good view of

it. With Jupiter you could increase the

magnitude of the eyepiece and still have a

very clear and steady view of it-- until

the clouds moved in which happened for good

by 10:30/11:00 until 3:30 am (I was told)

when the sky opened up. The clear skies

lasted to around 11:30 am on Saturday morn-

ing when the clouds moved in for good along

with some steady rain by 9:00 pm.

On Saturday morning Frank and Eddie

Filemyr cooked pancakes and bacon for us

with berries or chocolate toppings. Nice

start to the day.

On Thursday night we had around 28

attendees and Friday night the number grew

to 35. Saturday night we had only 5 atten-

dees with Peter and Kristen Graham and I.

All the attendees were pleased with the

site even with the required parking outside

of the septic system drainfield and setting

up your scope and tent in the drainfield

area. With 25 cars on the field we still

had room for a lot more vehicles!

On Saturday Pj Riley and I took a

pontoon boat ride back into the Cypress

trees on Trap Pond. We were the only two

riders on the boat. We saw turtles, a dou-

ble-crested cormorant and a Prothonotary

Warbler from a short distance away. Peter

and Kristen Graham rented a canoe; we met

on the Pond and told them where we saw the

Prothonotary Warbler. They got their canoe

within ten feet of one eating a worm.

Prothonotary Warbles are yellow breasted,

golden headed, gray backed birds which are

very difficult to see and are one prized by

birdwatchers--lucky Peter and Kristen!

Just before the fish fry on Saturday

Russ Lederman of Denkmeier Optical intro-

duced the star party attendees to 3D as-

tronomy through their own telescopes. He

already manufactures a very good bino-

viewer and works on most telescopes. In

mid- 2014 he invented a system called L-O-A

21. This 3D system was used during the star

party for the first time! He invited all to

look through his scope Saturday night and

during his talk explained the basics about

the system and how he envisioned this very

new and unique way of viewing the night

sky. Unfortunately, the night sky was not

cooperative but he said that he would be

back for our No-Frills Star Party (October

8th through 11th, 2015).

We had 37 door-prizes and everyone

seemed to like the idea of being able to

choose their door-prize by matching their

five tickets to the prizes they wanted. We

sold an additional 5 tickets for $5.00

which amounted to $60 worth of extra tick-

ets. The door-prizes included meteorites

from Sky Stones, a 2X 1 ¼” Barrow from Tele

View, a Firstscope from Celestron, $50 and

$25 gift certificates from Woodland Hills

Telescope and The Sky Guy. Orion gave us a

lot of items which included maps and the

infamous red night goggles. Sky &Telescope

gave a Pocket Sky Atlas and Binocular High-

lights and Kalmbach Publishing gave us a

subscription to Astronomy. The big door–

prize was won by Frank Filemyr which was 2

tickets to the 2016 Winner Star Party in

the Florida Keys worth over $325. The tick-

ets were given to us by the Southern Cross

Astronomical Society.

Steve Yates sent me an email about

the Star Gaze XXl. He wrote, ”Just a note

to say I think you guys did a superb job

this past weekend. I’m looking forward to

more weekends this Summer and the Fall

Party. From comments I got while there I

believe most felt the same as me. Thanks

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Have you ever heard of "Armalcolite"? Ar-

malcolite is a mineral that was discovered

at Tranquility Base by the Apollo 11 crew.

It was named for ARMstrong, ALdrin and

COLlins, the three Apollo 11 astronauts

Because the detectors on GALEX are so sensitive, the telescope on GALEX must al-ways be pointed away from the Earth and the Sun. In fact, the detectors are so sensitive that GALEX cannot look at any of the stars that we can see with the naked eye from the ground!

Can you hear in space? In the-ory, if there is nothing to re-ceive the sound, there is no sound. Because there are no "air waves" in space to con-duct the sound, it would not carry. So, the object would make a noise, but it would not carry to any receiver, and no one would hear it.

A spacesuit weighs approxi-mately 280 pounds on the ground -- without the astronaut in it. Of course, it weighs noth-ing in space. Putting on a spacesuit takes 45 minutes, including the special under-wear. After putting on the suit, the astronaut must spend a little over an hour breathing pure oxygen before going out-side the pressurized module, in order to adapt to the lower pressure maintained in the spacesuit.

Why were the first lunar mis-sions nicknamed "Apollo"? At the height of Greek coloniza-tion of the ancient world, Apollo was seen as a god who accompanied emigrants and travelers on their way. The name "Apollo" was suggested by Abe Silverstein, an early director of the Lewis Research Center and one of the "founding fathers" of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston.

Most of the elements found in the human body originated in stars; we are literally made of stardust.

Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Japan, Russia, Brazil, and the United States are all building parts of the International Space Station.

The Space Shuttle Main Engine operates at greater temperature extremes than any mechanical system in common use today. The fuel, liquefied hydrogen at -423 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Celsius) is the second coldest liquid on Earth. When it and the liquid oxygen are combusted, the temperature in the main combustion chamber is 6,000 degrees Fahren-heit (3,316 degrees Celsius), hotter than the boiling point of iron.

Condiments available on the Space Shuttle include salt, pepper, taco sauce, hot pep-per sauce, catsup, mayonnaise and mustard.

again for all you (and others) did.”

We did not have electricity on the

field until noon on Friday when Delmarva

Electric Coop finished the installation.

Park staff helped us brew coffee on Thurs-

day and Friday morning by giving us an ex-

tension cord for the restrooms on Cypress

Point. We certainly got our exercise making

coffee. Peter and Kristen sewed a few scope

coats out of Tyvek once we got electricity.

Without the help of Peter and Kristen Gra-

ham, Michael Lecuyer, Frank and Eddie File-

myr, Dennis Dellies, Pj Riley, Dean

Horowitz, Jerry and Patty Truitt, Doug

Towner, Keith Lohmeyer, Kathy Sheldon, Tom

Pomponio, Tom and Jill Uss and Joe Cain,

the Stargazers would not have had a suc-

cessful Star Gaze. After the door-prizes

attendees pitched in to help us pack up and

put things in the trailer before the rain

on Saturday night. Thank you for all your

assistance and hard work!

I have set up 4 club observing ses-

sions at Trap Pond Cypress Point. The dates

for the observing sessions are June 12 and/

or 13, July 17 and/or 18, August 14 and/or

15 and September 11 and/or 12. Of course

our next star party (No-Frills) will be Oct

8, 9 and 10. During one of those ses-

sions we will install the last 2 sets

of outlets on the edge of Cypress Point

Field.

We have elections at our June meeting

for President-Elect and Treasurer. Doug

Towner has volunteered for President-Elect

and Kathy Sheldon is still willing to be

our Treasurer. If anyone else wants to run

for either office, please contact me before

the next meeting. By the way, thanks for

allowing me to be your President over the

past year and, YES, this is my last news-

letter as President!!

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The "G" in GOES Is What Makes It Go

By Ethan Siegel Going up into space is the best way to view the universe, eliminating all the distortionary effects of weather, clouds, temperature variations and the atmosphere's airflow all in one swoop. It's also the best way, so long as you're up at high enough altitudes, to view an entire 50 percent of Earth all at once. And if you place your observatory at just the right location, you can observe the same hemisphere of Earth continuously, tracking the changes and behavior of our atmosphere for many years. The trick, believe it or not, was worked out by Kepler some 400 years ago! The same scientist who discovered that planets orbit the sun in ellipses also figured out the relation-ship between how distant an object needs to be from a much more massive one in order to have a certain orbital period. All you need to know is the period and distance of one satellite for any given body, and you can figure out the necessary distance to have any desired period. Luckily for

us, planet Earth has a natural satel l i te—the moon—and just from that information, we can figure out how distant an artificial satel-lite would need to be to have an orbital period that exactly matches the length of a day and the rotational speed of Earth. For our world, that means an orbital distance of 42,164 km (26,199 miles) from Earth's center, or 35,786 km (22,236 miles) above mean sea level. We call that orbit geosynchronous or geostationary, mean-ing that a satellite at that distance always remains above the exact same location on our world. Other effects—like solar wind, radiation pressure and the moon—require on-board thrusters to maintain the satellite's precisely desired position above any given point on Earth's surface. While geostationary satellites have been in use since 1963, it was only in 1974 that the Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS) program began to monitor Earth's weather with them, growing into the Geostationary Operational Environ-mental Satellite (GOES) program the next year. For 40 years now, GOES satellites have monitored the Earth's weather continuously, with a total of 16 satellites having been launched as part of the program. To the delight of NASA (and Ghostbusters) fans everywhere, GOES-R se-ries will launch in 2016, with thrice the spectral information, four times the spatial resolution and five times the coverage speed of its predecessors, with many other improved capa-bilities. Yet it's the simplicity of gravity and the geostation-ary "G" in GOES that gives us the power to observe our hemisphere all at once, continuously, and for as long as we like! Image credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini-stration, of the first image ever obtained from a GOES sat-ellite. This image was taken from over 22,000 miles (35,000 km) above the Earth's surface on October 25, 1975.

Your 2014-2015 Officers Office Officer Phone email President Lyle Jones 302-382-3764 worm1647@comcast.net President-elect Peter Graham Secretary Treasurer Kathy Sheldon 302-422-4695 memomsheldon@comcast.net Past President Don Surles 302-653-9445 don.surles@verizon.net

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Cassiopeia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cassiopeia is a constellation in the

northern sky, named after the vain queen Cas-

siopeia in Greek mythology, who boasted about

her unrivalled beauty. Cassiopeia was one of

the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-

century Greek astronomer Ptolemy, and it re-

mains one of the 88 modern constellations to-

day. It is easily recognizable due to its dis-

tinctive 'M' shape when in upper culmination

but in higher northern locations when near

lower culminations in spring and summer it has

a 'W' shape, formed by five bright stars. It

is bordered by Andromeda to the south, Perseus

to the southeast, and Cepheus to the north. It

is opposite the Big Dipper. In northern loca-

tions above 34ºN latitude it is visible year-

round and in the (sub)tropics it can be seen

at its clearest from September to early Novem-

ber in its characteristic 'M' shape. Even in

low southern latitudes below 25ºS is can be

seen low in the North.

Notable features

The four brightest stars of Cassiopeia

are all brighter than the third magnitude.

Alpha Cassiopeiae, traditionally

called Shedir (from the Arabic Al Sadr, "the

breast"), is a double star. The primary is an

orange-hued giant of magnitude 2.2, 229 light-

years from Earth. The secondary is widely

separated from the primary and is of magnitude

8.9. Its traditional name means "breast".

Beta Cassiopeiae, or Caph (meaning "hand"),

is a white-hued star of magnitude 2.3, 54

light-years from Earth. 16th-century Arabian

astronomer Al Tizini gave this star the name

Al Sanam al Nakah, (The Camel's Hump), refer-

ring to the contemporaneous Persian figure.

The two other notably bright stars in

Cassiopeia are both variable stars. Gamma Cas-

siopeiae is a shell star, a type of variable

star that has a very high rate of rotation.

This causes the star to be somewhat unstable

and periodically eject rings of material.

Gamma Cassiopeiae has a minimum magnitude of

3.0 and a maximum magnitude of 1.6; it is cur-

rently approximately magnitude 2.2. Delta Cas-

siopeiae, also known as "Ruchbah" or "Rukbat,"

meaning "knee," is an Algol-type eclipsing

variable star. It varies by 0.1 magnitudes

around magnitude 2.7; its period is 2 years

and 1 month. Ruchbah appears to have a blue-

white hue and it is 99 light-years from Earth.

There are several dimmer single stars

in Cassiopeia. Epsilon Cassiopeiae is a blue-

white hued star of magnitude 3.3, 442 light-

years from Earth. Rho Cassiopeiae is a semi-

regular pulsating variable yellow-hued super-

giant star, among the most luminous stars in

the galaxy with a luminosity of approximately

500,000 solar luminosities. It has a minimum

magnitude of 6.2 and a maximum magnitude of

4.1; its period is approximately 320 days. Rho

Cassiopeiae is about 10,000 light-years from

Earth.

Cassiopeia possesses several dimmer

double stars and binary stars. Eta Cassiopeiae

is a binary star with a period of 480 years.

The primary is a yellow-hued star of magnitude

3.5 and the secondary is a red-hued star of

magnitude 7.5. The system is 19 light-years

from Earth. Iota Cassiopeiae is a triple star

142 light-years from Earth. The primary is a

white-hued star of magnitude 4.5, the secon-

dary is a yellow-hued star of magnitude 6.9,

and the tertiary is a star of magnitude 8.4.

The primary and secondary are close together

but the primary and tertiary are widely sepa-

rated. Sigma Cassiopeiae is a binary star 1500

light-years from Earth. It has a green-hued

primary of magnitude 5.0 and a blue-hued sec-

ondary of magnitude 7.3. Psi Cassiopeiae is a

triple star 193 light-years from Earth. The

primary is an orange-hued giant star of magni-

tude 4.7 and the secondary is a close pair of

stars that appears to be of magnitude 9.0.

Deep-sky objects

Because it lies in rich Milky Way star

fields, Cassiopeia contains many deep sky ob-

jects, including open clusters and nebulae.

Two Messier objects, M52 (NGC 7654) and

M103 (NGC 581), are located in Cassiopeia;

both are open clusters. M52, once described as

a "kidney-shaped" cluster, contains approxi-

mately 100 stars and is 5200 light-years from

Earth. Its most prominent member is an orange-

hued star of magnitude 8.0 near the cluster's

edge. M103 is far poorer than M52, with only

about 25 stars included. It is also more dis-

tant, at 8200 light-years from Earth. Its most

prominent member is actually a closer, super-

imposed double star; it consists of a 7th-

magnitude primary and 10th-magnitude secon-

dary.

The other prominent open clusters in

Cassiopeia are NGC 457 and NGC 663, both of

which have about 80 stars. NGC 457 is looser,

and its brightest member is Phi Cassiopeiae, a

white-hued supergiant star of magnitude 5.0.

The stars of NGC 457, arrayed in chains, are

approximately 10,000 light-years from Earth.

NGC 663 is both closer, at 8200 light-years

from Earth, and larger, at 0.25 degrees in di-

ameter.

There are two supernova remnants in

Cassiopeia. The first, which is unnamed, is

the aftermath of the supernova called Tycho's

Star. It was observed in 1572 by Tycho Brahe

and now exists as a bright object in the radio

spectrum. Within the 'W' asterism formed by

Cassiopeia’s five major stars lies Cassiopeia

A (Cas A). It is the remnant of a supernova

that took place approximately 300 years ago

(as observed now from Earth; it is 10,000

light-years away),[5] and has the distinction

of being the strongest radio source observable

outside our solar system. It was perhaps ob-

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served as a faint star in 1680 by John Flam-

steed. It was also the subject of the first

image returned by the Chandra X-Ray Observa-

tory in the late 1990s. The shell of matter

expelled from the star is moving at 4,000

kilometres (2,500 mi) per second; it has a

temperature of 30,000 kelvin on average.

NGC 457 is another open cluster in Cas-

siopeia, also called the E.T. Cluster, the Owl

Cluster, and Caldwell 13. The cluster was dis-

covered in 1787 by William Herschel. It has an

overall magnitude of 6.4 and is approximately

10,000 light-years from Earth, lying in the

Perseus arm of the Milky Way. However, its

most prominent member, the double star Phi

Cassiopeiae, is far closer - between 1000 and

4000 light-years away. NGC 457 is fairly rich;

it is a Shapley class e and Trumpler class I 3

r cluster. It is concentrated towards its cen-

ter and detached from the star field. It con-

tains more than 100 stars, which vary widely

in brightness.

Two members of the Local Group of gal-

axies are in Cassiopeia. NGC 185 is a magni-

tude 9.2 elliptical galaxy of type E0, 2 mil-

lion light-years away. Slightly dimmer and

more distant NGC 147 is a magnitude 9.3 ellip-

tical galaxy, like NGC 185 it is an elliptical

of type E0; it is 2.3 million light-years from

Earth. Though they do not appear in Andromeda,

both dwarf galaxies are gravitationally bound

to the far larger Andromeda Galaxy.

Meteor showers

The December Phi Cassiopeiids are a re-

cently discovered early December meteor shower

that radiates from Cassiopeia. Phi Cassio-

peiids are very slow, with an entry velocity

of approximately 16.7 kilometers per second.

The shower's parent body is a Jupiter family

comet, though its specific identity is un-

known.

Mythology

The constellation is named after Cas-

siopeia, the queen of Aethiopia. Cassiopeia

was the wife of Cepheus, King of Aethiopia and

mother of Princess Andromeda. Cepheus and Cas-

siopeia were placed next to each other among

the stars, along with Andromeda. She was

placed in the sky as a punishment for her

boast that her daughter Andromeda was more

beautiful than the Nereids or, alternatively,

that she herself was more beautiful than the

sea nymphs. As punishment, she was forced to

wheel around the North Celestial Pole on her

throne, spending half of her time clinging to

it so she does not fall off, and Poseidon de-

creed that Andromeda should be bound to a rock

as prey for the monster Cetus, who was ravish-

ing the Ethiopian coast. Andromeda was then

rescued by the hero Perseus, whom she later

married.

Cassiopeia has been variously portrayed

throughout her history as a constellation. In

Persia, she was drawn by al-Sufi as a queen

holding a staff with a crescent moon in her

right hand, wearing a crown, as well as a two-

humped camel. In France, she was portrayed as

having a marble throne and a palm leaf in her

left hand, holding her robe in her right hand.

This depiction is from Augustin Royer's 1679

atlas.

In the ancient Celtic world Anu was the

mother goddess and considered to be the mother

of all the gods; the Tuatha de Danann. Other

references say that she is the mother earth

goddess or the Goddess of fertility. On the

Cork Kerry border are two mountains called the

Paps of Anu (pap is another word for breast.)

On the top of each mountain are stone struc-

tures or cairns that when viewed from a dis-

tance make the two mountains look like a pair

of breasts. Anu was known, in the Celtic

World, by several similar names: Danu or Don

being the most popular alternatives. She was a

Mother-Goddess, the wife of the Sun God, Bele-

nos, and considered to be the ancestor of all

the Gods, the Tuatha dé Danann, who found

themselves obliged to reside in the Otherworld

when Miled brought the Celts to the British

Isles. She still looks down on us from the

night's sky where she appears as Llys Don,

better known as the constellation of

Casseopeia.

In non-Western astronomy

In Chinese astronomy, the stars forming

the constellation Cassiopeia are found among

three areas: the Purple Forbidden enclosure

(紫微垣, Zǐ Wēi Yuán), the Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ), and the

White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ).

The Chinese astronomers saw several

figures in what is modern-day Cassiopeia.

Kappa, Eta, and Mu Cassopeiae formed a con-

stellation called the Bridge of the Kings;

when seen along with Alpha and Beta Cassio-

peiae, they formed the great chariot Wang-

Liang. The charioteer's whip was represented

by Gamma Cassiopeiae, sometimes called "Tsih",

the Chinese word for "whip".

In the 1600s, various Biblical figures

were depicted in the stars of Cassiopeia.

These included Bathsheba, Solomon's mother;

Deborah, an Old Testament prophet; and Mary

Magdalene. a disciple of Jesus.

A figure called the "Tinted Hand" also

appeared in the stars of Cassiopeia in some

Arab atlases. This is variously said to repre-

sent a woman's hand dyed red with henna, as

well as the bloodied hand of Muhammad's daugh-

ter Fatima. The hand is made up of the stars α

Cas, β Cas, γ Cas, δ Cas, ε Cas, and η Cas.

The arm is made up of the stars α Per, γ Per,

δ Per, ε Per, η Per, and ν Per.

Another Arab constellation that incor-

porated the stars of Cassiopeia was the Camel.

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Its head was composed of Lambda, Kappa, Iota,

and Phi Andromedae; its hump was Beta Cassio-

peiae; its body was the rest of Cassiopeia,

and the legs were composed of stars in Perseus

and Andromeda.

Other cultures see a hand or moose ant-

lers in the pattern. These include the Lapps,

for whom the W of Cassiopeia forms an elk ant-

ler. The Chukchi of Siberia similarly saw the

five main stars as five reindeer stags.

The people of the Marshall Islands saw

Cassiopeia as part of a great porpoise con-

stellation. The main stars of Cassiopeia make

its tail, Andromeda and Triangulum form its

body, and Aries makes its head.[10] In Hawaii,

Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Cassiopeiae were named.

Alpha Cassiopeiae was called Poloahilani, Beta

Cassiopeiae was called Polula, and Gamma Cas-

siopeiae was called Mulehu. The people of Pu-

kapuka saw the figure of Cassiopeia as a dis-

tinct constellation called Na Taki-tolu-a-

Mataliki.

In popular culture

In the 1997 film Contact starring Jodie

Foster and Matthew McConaughey, Foster's char-

acter Doctor Arroway has the following line of

dialogue: "You see that large W-shaped con-

stellation there? That's Cassiopeia. And Cas-

siopeia A gives off a whole lot of radio sig-

nals. I listen to them a lot. It's a remnant

of a supernova."

In the 1998 episode of The X-Files,

"Patient X", guest starring Veronica Cart-

wright, Cartwright's character Cassandra

Spender, an alien abductee, leaves finger-

prints on a window corresponding to the con-

stellation Cassiopeia, a reference to the

character's name (she is confined to a wheel-

chair) as well as an implied origin for the

aliens who abducted her.

In the 2001 movie Serendipity, starring

John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, Cusack tells

Beckinsale about the constellation Cassiopeia

the night they meet one another after noticing

that the freckles on her forearm match the

constellation's pattern exactly.

In Sara Bareilles' 2013 album The

Blessed Unrest, the 7th track is titled

"Cassiopeia" and is lyrically and metaphori-

cally about the stars. During the making of

The Blessed Unrest, she was given a book about

astronomy. She found herself fascinated read-

ing about the different constellations, espe-

cially Cassiopeia, as well as the topic of su-

pernovas, the incredibly bright bursts of

light that stars give off when they explode.

Inspired, she penned this song imagining Cas-

siopeia as a human, and falling in love with

another star. "I started to think about how

that might feel to personify, you know? The

idea of being a star and so far away from eve-

rything around you," she told Radio.com "What

if a star falls in love? The song is this idea

that you give something up to come together."

In the movie The Green Mile, while Mi-

chael Clarke Duncan's character John Coffey is

being smuggled from prison, Coffey points at

the sky at what appears to be Cassiopeia and

says to Paul Edgecomb (played by Tom Hanks),

"Look boss! It's Cassie, the lady in the

rockin' chair!"

In the 2011 episode of The Big Bang

Theory, "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst," , Rajesh

"Raj" Koothrappali is out on a date with a

deaf woman named Emily. Raj did not know

American Sign Language, so Howard Wolowitz as-

sists Raj on the date by translating for him.

Howard, however, is upset and bored by the end

of the date, so he translates things differ-

ently than Raj says them. At one point, as the

three were walking out of the restaurant, Raj

points to the night sky and says, "It's a lit-

tle hard to see with the city lights, but that

W-shaped constellation is Cassiopeia. And she

was the mother of Andromeda, who's over

there." Howard, after a moment, translates it,

"Look, pretty stars."

In the children's novel Momo, by German

author Michael Ende, the heroine finds a tur-

tle named Cassiopeia.

Cassiopeia is also the name of the fan-

club for the Korean boy-band TVXQ. The five

stars that make up the constellation represent

the 5 members of the group.

In the Japan's first super sentai se-

ries, "Himitsu Sentai Gorenger", Cassiopeia is

the constellation whose cosmic rays weaken the

main enemy Black Cross Fuhrer and thus was in-

corporated into Gorenger's finisher. Each syl-

lable of Cassiopeia was also spelled out by

the first Japanese letter of each ranger's

surname spelling Ka-Shi-O-Pe-A.

In the 2010 "Ni No Kuni; Curse of the

White Witch", Cassiopeia is the once wise,

then turned villain, White Witch, who is set

to destroy the world. She is saved by a young

wizard named Oliver and her childhood self,

Princess Pea.

In the 2013 novel, "The Fifth Wave",

the main character Cassie's real name is Cas-

siopeia. During a scene in the novel, Cassie

sees the constellation with her father.

Namesakes

USS Cassiopeia (AK-75) was a United States

Navy Crater-class cargo ship named after the

constellation.

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