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| | All Beta Pic References |
 | | STRAUSS F.M., DUCATI J.R. Prediction of spectral classification from photometric observations-application to the uvby beta photometry and the MK spectral classification. | | | HECK A., MERSCH G. Prediction of spectral classification from photometric observations -application to the uvby beta photometry and the MK spectral classification. | | | Resolution of the circumstellar disk of beta Pictoris at 10 and 20 mu.m. |
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http://astron.berkeley.edu/~kalas/disksite/pages/bpicrefs.html
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| | Constellations and Featured Stars |
| | It was once said to be of first magnitude but it now shines at an apparent magnitude of 2.14 although its absolute magnitude is 1.6, it lies at a distance of 42 light years and is of spectral type A3. | | | The other famous example of this incorrect labelling is Alpha Geminorum and Beta Geminorum, Castor and Pollux, although it is thought that Castor has dimmed substantially over the years. | | | The principal stars are: Schedar - The Breast (Alpha Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.2; Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.3; Gamma Cassiopeiae a shell star, variable, with mean magnitude 2.5; Ruchba - The Knee (Delta Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.7 |
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http://www.donastro.freeserve.co.uk/constellations.htm
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| | Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Cassiopeia (constellation) |
| | It is the brightest X-ray binary on the sky, no other X-ray binaries can be seen with the naked eye. | | | Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Cassiopeia (constellation); all previous versions may be viewed here. | | | The Deep Photographic Guide to the Constellations: Cassiopeia |
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http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/index.php?title=Cassiopeia_(constellation)
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| | Page1 of April Newslwttwer |
| | Epsilon Cassiopeia, SEGIN (Magnitude 3.4) is at the eastern end of the W at the top of the chair. | | | Ruchbah is a good example as it is a reduction of a longer phrase that refers to Cassiopeia’s knee. | | | It is an unpredictable variable star; normally averaging about magnitude 2.5, but in 1937 suddenly brightening to magnitude 1.6 and then over the next year fading to 3.0; it then gradually returned to it’s current magnitude. |
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http://www.delmarvastargazers.org/newsletter/apr03/page1.html
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| | Tonights Sky |
| | Near the cluster's center and north of a pair of matched magnitude stars is Cepheid variable DI Cassiopeiae - which changes by about a magnitude in a period of a week. | | | First recorded by Maraldi in 1746 and cataloged by Messier in 1760, the 6.0 magnitude M2 is one of the finest and brightest of Class II globular clusters. | | | Gamma is also a visual double star, but the 11th magnitude companion is highly difficult to perceive so close (2.3") to the primary. |
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http://www.avastronomyclub.org/tonite.htm
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| | Seasonal Excerpt from The Deep Sky: An Introduction |
| | To find it, draw a line from Alpha to Beta Cassiopeiae, and extend it slightly more than an equal distance to the northwest of Beta. | | | Despite its relatively high magnitude, NGC 663 remains an unresolved mass when viewed with smaller amateur telescopes. | | | The system's primary star, Iota A, shines at magnitude 4.7. |
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http://www.philharrington.net/dsexpt.htm
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| | Universe Today - What's Up This Week - Nov 29 - Dec 5, 2004 |
| | RZ is a rapidly eclipsing binary that can change from magnitude 6.4 to magnitude 7.8 in less than two hours. | | | By drawing an imaginary line between Alpha and Beta, we extend that line the same distance and angle beyond Beta and find the M52. | | | Viewers with larger telescopes are challenged to find the 14th magnitude optical companion to Caph at about 23" in separation. |
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http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/whats_up_nov29_2004.html
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| | Massive star may explode any day |
| | The brightest stars in Cassiopeia are 2nd magnitude. | | | I don't have a star table or map handy, but I would guess Rho is about 4th magnitude. | | | The researchers think another eruption, possibly a stronger one, is imminent. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/847031/posts
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| | Exploring Cassiopeia |
| | Iota Cassiopeiae is a triple system, with two being a visual binary shining at 4.6, 6.9; being separated by 7.3". | | | Phi Cassiopeiae is another multiple system, with rather wide components. | | | This star is one of the most luminous known, with at least 200,000 times the light of the sun. |
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http://www.fvastro.org/beginners/exploring_cassiopeia.htm
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| | Cosmic Voyage-The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers |
| | Relatively bright 4 Cassiopeiae, 5.0 magnitude, is 42' to the north. | | | The nearest bright, naked eye star is 2.3 magnitude Caph, Beta Cassiopeiae, about 6 degrees to the east-southeast. | | | My drawing shows 48 member stars with 13 field stars thrown in for good measure. |
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http://members.aol.com/billferris/m52.html
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| | Science Line - Night Patrol - Constellations - Cassiopeia |
| | To see if the brightness of Tsih changes, compare it to Chaph (Beta Cassiopeiae) which has a constant magnitude of +2.25 with which Tsih may appear brighter or fainter than Chaph over the years owing to its Jackal and Hyde personality. | | | Since Tsih has such a variable magnitude which is irregular it is worth keeping an eye on its brightness. | | | Arcing through Cassiopeia is the backbone of the night, the Milky Way. |
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http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/astron/const/ConstList/cassiopeia.html
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| | Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations |
| | Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link. | | | Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #5464102 - The chromosphere of Beta Cassiopeiae |
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http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=5464102
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| | Cosmic Voyage-The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers |
| | The impressive Messier cluster, M103 is located just 1.4 degrees to the west, about halfway between NGC 659 and 2.7 magnitude Ruchbah, Beta Cassiopeiae. | | | An 8th magnitude GSC star stands 4' from the southern field boundary. | | | 5.8 magnitude 44 Cassiopeiae shines about 11' southwest of NGC 659. |
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http://members.aol.com/billferris/n659.html
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| | Clear Skies On Demand - an astronomy blog |
| | This again is a stunning pair with a bright 3.4 A component and a 8.9 B component as its companion at a position angle of 149 degrees. | | | M 52 has a magnitude of 6.9 and its diameter is 12’ Another bright cluster in Cassiopeia, NGC 7789 has a magnitude 6.7 but it’s diameter is a bit arbitrary when you read different publications and sources about this beautiful cluster. | | | You can find NG 7789 by starting at Beta Cassiopeiae. |
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http://www.backyard-astro.com/blog/index.php/weblog/C12/P10
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| | How to Tell Time by the Stars |
| | Also note that tradeoffs have been made between convenience and accuracy: there are simpler methods that are grossly inaccurate, and more-accurate methods that are more complex (using equatorial rather than circumpolar stars). | | | The task requires more skill than you might think. | | | This has the slight problem that it doesn’t work. |
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http://www.av8n.com/physics/star-time.htm
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| | CURRICULUM VITAE |
| | Teays, E. Schmidt, M. Fracassini and L. Pasinetti Fracassini, "The Chromosphere of Beta Cassiopeiae," Astrophysical Journal Vol 343, 916 (1988) 20%, CCD Photometer |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Caph |
| | Caph has an apparent magnitude of +2.3 and is spectral type F2. | | | reaching from the Pleiades)), also known as al-Sanam al-Nakah, is the name for the star &; Cassiopeiae (beta Cassiopeiae). |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/C/CA/CAP/Caph
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| | * Beta Cassiopeiae - (Astronomy): Definition |
| | Principal stars are: Schedar - The Breast (Alpha Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.2; Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.3; Gamma Cassiopeiae a shell star, variable, with mean magnitude 2.5; Ruchba - The Knee (Delta Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.7... | | | Caph is a relatively bright star with a magnitude of 2. | | | Beta Cassiopeiae is known as Caph from the Arabic meaning ‘stained hand’, as it was thought by them to represent a hand stained with henna. |
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http://en.mimi.hu/astronomy/beta_cassiopeiae.html
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| | Cassiopeia |
| | Midway through the animation, Beta moves enough to distort the familiar shape; after 50,000 years, longer than the scope of this animation, Cassiopeia would be largely unrecognizable. | | | Unlike the Sun, which will always remain more-or-less in the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, Mu Cassiopeia moves above and below the plane of the galaxy by thousands of light years. | | | Mu Cassiopeiae is one of the most rapidly-moving naked-eye stars, and, in fact, belongs to a different class of stars than most stars visible from Earth. |
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http://www.astronexus.com/3duniv/contents/anim-pages/pm-cass.html
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| | Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Cassiopeia |
| | Located in the far north of the constellation, its overall magnitude is 5.7, with individual stars at 8.5 and fainter. | | | The image is a drawing by Peter Schlatter of observations through a 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope at 62x on August 31, 1995. | | | It is 1.2° SSW of Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae). |
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http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/cas
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| | Orbital Binary faint Blue Alpha 2 appears green in contrast to bright Red Alpha 1 5.4 B3V Beta 1 Scorpii Acrab Arabic: "scorpion" aka - Graffias means: "claws" Beta 2 Scorpii 16h 5' 26.1 -19° 48' 19 530 2.59 B1V B2V Blue Main Seq. | | | These 7 stars are all of similar makeup and relatively close to each other - and to us - likely a common origin. | | | The Big Dipper To find the North Star, imagine a line between the two stars marking the front of the cup - Dubhe and Merak (aka Alpha and Beta) - continue that line up about 5 times its length points right to Polaris This Constellation is known as The Government in Chinese Mythology. |
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http://petkohumenik.szm.sk/HVIEZDY.TXT
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| | Alpha Con |
| | One way of finding the cluster is to draw a line from alpha Cassiopeiae through beta, continuing it about the same distance (and a bit more). | | | All files associated with The Constellations Web Page are | | | M52 may prove a bit elusive; it isn't in a very notable part of the sky. |
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http://www.dibonsmith.com/M52.htm
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| | RIGHT ASCENSION |
| | Sidereal Time (ST; used to know when to look for comets, planets, constellations, deep sky objects, etc.) | | | Cassiopeia is a double-lobed W shape, and this star is the outside end of the deepest lobe of the W. Why would it be meaningless to specify a Right Ascension for the north celestial pole? | | | Use a celestial globe to determine the Right Ascension (RA) of the following (remember to indicate units of hours and minutes): |
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http://homepage.mac.com/kvmagruder/bcp/sphere/ra.htm
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| | It has visual magnitude 2.28, meaning that you could see this star easily with the naked eye. | | | This means that the light we're seeing from that star today, actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth. | | | My birthday star has the common name Caph and is called 'Beta Cassiopeiae' in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. |
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http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=3549160&postID=107148759132711794
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| | Herbig proto disks - surprise! meet junior and the cousins |
| | Also, an indistinct white object (image far left) | | | An anomalous strange object with a cannister outline is floating in the field plate of Beta Pictorus, the object seems to have stereo components therefore (if a 3D form) is not a plate flaw which would be entirely flat despite being viewed in 3D | | | At left is a garrish plate error in the Dss Poss1 infrared plate for Beta Cassiopeiae. |
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http://www.cosmicastronomy.com/herbig.htm
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| | Autoscan Systems Pty. Ltd. - Proper Starnames |
| | Graffias (S) - Beta Scorpii, also Acrab, Grappine. | | | Grappine (S) - Beta Scorpii, also Acrab, Graffias. | | | Kocab (S) - Beta Ursae Minoris, also Kochab |
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http://www.autoscan.com.au/starname.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Caph |
| | Caph, also known as Beta Cassiopeiae, second brightest star in the constellation Cassiopeia, the Queen. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Caph.html
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| | The long-term behaviour of the photometric variability of Beta Cassiopeiae |
| | The long-term behaviour of the photometric variability of Beta Cassiopeiae | | | All the photometry available on {beta} Cas (spanning 25 years) was also analyzed; the amplitude of the light curve was found to be constant, while a small period variability can be inferred. | | | Their analysis performed with both the Vanicek least-squares and the classical O-C methods led us to the confirmation of the monoperiodic pulsation. |
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http://www.cs.wisc.edu/niagara/data/nasa/A+AS_108_55.xml
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| | Gamma Scorpii 1, Beta Copernicus 1, and Gamma Brahe 1. | | | In all cases, they are in the first orbital position, closest to their sun. | | | The distraction you need can be found at the Umgah homeworld of Beta Orionis 1. |
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http://home.flash.net/~dyork/resource.txt
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| | (meteorobs) Olcott showers |
| | He also mentions the Beta Herculids and the Beta Ophiuchids on June 7 and June 10 respectively. | | | However these are unsuitably positioned with respect to the moon. | | | Since this is a particularly dry period for meteor observing I thought you might be interested in one of the showers he mentioned. |
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http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg21663.html
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| | Caph |
| | Al Sanam al Nakah is "The Camel's Hump," reflecting another traditional version of Cassiopeia as a camel. | | | This star is also known as Chaph, Kaff, or Al Sanam al Nakah. | | | The Arabs sometimes referred to the area of Cassiopeia as Kaff' al Hadib, "The Hand Stained with Henna." The usual name of the star, Caph, derives from this traditional name for the constellation. |
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http://domeofthesky.com/clicks/caph.html
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| | Cassiopeia |
| | The first one unpredictably varies its brightness, fluctuating from magnitude 1,6 to 3,0: these variations are probably due to wraps of gas which go away from the star and intercept its light. | | | In the constellation of Cassiopeia there are the rests of the supernova observed in 1572 by Tycho Brahe. | | | Cassiopeia is very easy to recognize thanks to its characteristic W shape: in comparison with Ursa Maior, it is on the opposite side of the Polar Star. |
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http://www.astrofilitrentini.it/mat/costell/cas_e.html
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| | Catalogue: J/A+AS/108/55 |
| | J/A+AS/108/55 Beta Cas (Riboni+, 1994) ================================================================================ The long-term behaviour of the photometric variability of Beta Cassiopeiae RIBONI E., PORETTI E., GALLI G. | | | This file × table1 19 1003 Beta Cas V measurements | | | 108, 55 (1994)> =1994A&AS..108...55R (SIMBAD/NED Reference) ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Stars, variable; Photometry Keywords: methods: data analysis - stars: individual: Beta Cas - stars: oscillations - Delta Scu File Summary: |
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http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?J/A+AS/108/55
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| | Diwali - Eta Cassiopeiae |
| | Primary: Eta Cassiopeiae A - also known as Achird | | | After the failure of the Achird Vecs to activate their human Zygotes, a second wave of Parental vecs were sent to Beta Cassiopeiae, with disastrous results. | | | Colonized: 1028 Unmanned Probe Dyaush (launched 910) with Human zygotes and Parental Vecs (turingrade subcopies of Surya built into aioid bodies to nurture the new-born humans at the colony). |
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| | Put all of the other parts into the Ultron by 'use'ing them from the Device Manifest. | | | o While the Mycons are away, go to Beta Brahe (639.5;231.2) and get the Sun Device. | | | Ultron The Supox have the Ultron on Beta Librae. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/3dotoday/page1/3docht_4.txt
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| | U of M News Service |
| | Many other names have been given to stars by astronomers who inventory them for research purposes, according to Teske. | | | "To add to the confusion, modern astronomers apply their own rules for naming stars, with the result that each of Cassiopeia’s stars has many aliases," Teske said. | | | One of the oldest of the star patterns we recognize, it was recognized by the ancient Greeks. |
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http://www.umich.edu/news?Releases/1996/Oct96/chr102596
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| | Emperor of Dawn by Steve White - Chapter 5 - Baen Books |
| | The Beta Cassiopeiae Sector, 4327 C.E. The conference room was on the uppermost level of the great orbital station at DM +63 137, like the reception hall, and it had the same kind of upward-curving transparencies that admitted the unwinking light of a myriad stars into the dimly lit chamber. | | | That light shone on a long oval shiny-topped table and chairs which were mostly vacant, for this was no staff meeting. |
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http://www.baen.com/chapters/emperor_5.htm
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| | Publikacje 2000 |
| | Periods of Beta Cephei and SPB stars from HIPPARCOS photometry | | | Analysis of Fe I-II spectra of Beta Cassiopeiae |
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http://www.astro.uni.wroc.pl/nauka/prac2000.html
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| | Messier Object 52 |
| | M52 can be found quite easily by extending the line from Alpha over Beta Cassiopeiae by 6 1/2 degrees to the NW to 5th mag 4 Cassiopeiae; M52 is roughly 1 degree south and slightly west of this star. | | | M52 is a fine open cluster located in a rich Milky Way field. | | | Situated about 35' SW of M52 is the Bubble Nebula NGC 7635, a diffuse nebula which appears as a large, faint and diffuse oval, about 3.5x3' around the 7th-mag star HD 220057 of spectral type B2 IV. |
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http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m052.html
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| | Messier 52 |
| | An irregular cluster of stars between the head of Cepheus and his daughter's throne; it lies north-west-by-west of Beta Cassiopeiae, and one third of the way towards Alpha Cephei. | | | This object assumes somewhat of a triangular form, with an orange-tinted 8th-mag star at its vertex, giving it the resemblance of a bird with outspread wings. | | | It was when he observed the Comet which appeared in this year that M. Messier saw this cluster, which was close to the comet on the 7th of September 1774; it is below the star d Cassiopeiae: that star was used to determine [the position of] both the cluster of stars and the comet." |
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http://www.seds.org/messier/Mdes/dm052.html
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| | Its observations of a calibration star, Beta Cassiopeiae, showed that the instrument optics, spectrometer and motion compensation system are working well. | | | The team also will use the star as an unpolarized standard against which other observations can be measured. | | | The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) got its first turn as the primary instrument this morning. |
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http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-67/news/sts-67-pocc-04.txt
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| | East Valley Astronomy Club - Deep-sky Object of the Month |
| | NGC 7789 lies three degrees southwest of Beta Cassiopeiae. | | | Small scopes may have some difficulty resolving this cluster, but the view in six-inch and larger scopes is truly impressive. | | | NGC 7789 is a rich open cluster in Cassiopeia. |
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http://www.eastvalleyastronomy.org/dsom.html
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| | eSky: Caph |
| | Caph is a variable star, showing a pulsating pattern in its luminosity. | | | A pale yellow star, rather more massive than the Sun, that lies about fifty-five light years away. | | | It is the right-most of the five stars that make up Cassiopeia's characteristic 'W' shape. |
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http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/stars/caph.html
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| | Indian Institute of Astrophysics-First Light |
| | 1) Beta Cassiopeiae taken soon after the telescope optics was installed and balanced. | | | 3)Beta Cassiopeiae after tilting the secondary to remove coma and refocussing. | | | The images clockwise from top left show : |
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| | Starting over, back to the 400... |
| | Being located in the same 72X field of view as Beta Andromeda (Mirach), this has to be one of the easiest objects (short of the moon, sun, Jupiter or Saturn) to locate. | | | I next moved to NGC404, another good object for calibrating sky conditions. | | | Can you think of any other super-easy targets (maybe the Ring Nebula) to point a newbie at? |
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| | Cassiopeiae is probably the most wonderful and social kitten we have met, | | | Give us a call if you know you can give her a lot of loving and even more attention! |
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http://web.telia.com/~u63506971/S*Azza/kittens.html
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| | Doug Sanqunetti Photos |
| | To find M52, and hence the Bubble Nebula, follow the line Alpha to Beta Cassiopeiae and on in a straight line for the same distance. | | | The nebula has a strong O-III emission, an O-III nebula filter should make observation easier. | | | Billed by the Hubble Heritage Team (Hester et al. |
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http://www.iasindy.org/photos/dsanqunetti/doug09.php
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| | Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae) |
| | Its name comes from an Arabic phrase meaning “the stained hand” — the W-shape of this constellation being interpreted in Arab lore as the splayed fingers of a stretched hand that has been colored by henna. | | | A giant or subgiant F star that is the second brightest star in the constellation Cassiopeia. |
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http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/Caph.html
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| | DASZYNSKA, J.; CUGIER, H. Far-ultraviolet light curves of the delta Scuti variable beta Cassiopeiae | | | DASZYNSKA, J.; NIEMCZURA, E.; CUGIER, H. The metallicity of beta Cephei stars on the basis of the satellite ultraviolet spectra |
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