Talk:Cassiopeia (constellation)

Cass A

Should there be a link to "Cassiopeia A" from this page - there is a reverse link from that page, but I could not find this supernova remnant mentioned on this page?

Yes. Said: Rursus 15:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cassiopeia = The Empress

Cassiopeia stands for the female "Hanged Man" and also the Seated Empress/goddess in the Valley/Throne/Chalice, who is more beautiful than the others. Of course this has been ridiculed by the patriarchy, just as so many other strong female arcehtypes.

Cassiopeia rules - and she was not vain but sure of her worth (which was considered a threat to the male ego!) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.230.147.196 (talk) 08:35, 20 August 2008 (UTC) cassiopeia was very boastful. she thought that her daughter was more beautiful than the Neireds. but what she didn't know was that one of the Neireds were married to Poisiedon. When Andromeda was going to marry Perseus, perseus cut medusa's head off and turned everybody to stone at his wedding, including cassiopeia. Then poseidon put cassiopeia into the sky and her husband, daughter, and Perseus. But, to humiliate cassiopia, he made it to wear sometimes she was up side down. --206.78.191.226 (talk) 18:12, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Rachael.[reply]

Cassiopeia A is approximately 300 years old

From the article "Cassiopeia A is approximately 300 years old"? Should this be corrected? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.111.116.86 (talk) 09:40, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An IP had changed this to "300 million years", which is plainly wrong. "300 years" is approximately correct but only in the sense of disregarding the time light took to travel from it. I tried to clarify this. 85.226.206.229 (talk) 09:01, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture

Do we need any of the Popular Culture section? I am tempted to delete it, but thought I'd ask for opinions first. Skeptic2 (talk) 08:55, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I too do not see the necessity of this section - most of it appears to be non-notable. AstroLynx (talk) 12:51, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Necessary - no. Interesting - I think so. I vote: leave it in. --BjKa (talk) 13:16, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Frankly the Popular Culture section now starting to overwhelm the entry and adds nothing to our knowledge of the subject, which is a constellation. Worth reconsidering? Skeptic2 (talk) 08:39, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hardly overwhelming, and its quite a bit shorter now ;) Lithopsian (talk) 15:07, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Team Star is all about this constellation. MarioJump83 (talk) 07:33, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Someone needs to change the formatting on the page

The contents menu is in the wrong place. I don't know how to fix it. 96.28.39.103 (talk) 06:38, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Cassiopeia (constellation)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Cassiopeia (constellation)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "an331_4_349":

From Alpha Cygni variable: Hohle, M. M.; Neuhäuser, R.; Schutz, B. F. (April 2010), "Masses and luminosities of O- and B-type stars and red supergiants", Astronomische Nachrichten, 331 (4): 349, arXiv:1003.2335, Bibcode:2010AN....331..349H, doi:10.1002/asna.200911355
From AO Cassiopeiae: Hohle, M. M.; Neuhäuser, R.; Schutz, B. F. (April 2010), "Masses and luminosities of O- and B-type stars and red supergiants", Astronomische Nachrichten, 331 (4): 349, arXiv:1003.2335, Bibcode:2010AN....331..349H, doi:10.1002/asna.200911355

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Cassiopeia (image right side up).jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Cassiopeia (image right side up).jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 19, 2017. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2017-04-19. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:48, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the day

Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the vain queen Cassiopeia in Greek mythology. One of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, it remains one of the 88 constellations recognized today. It is easily identified by its distinctive 'W' shape, formed by five bright stars. This illustration was included in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards illustrated by Sidney Hall.Illustration: Sidney Hall; restoration: Adam Cuerden

Archive – More featured pictures...

Ah, it's a specially celebrated featured picture! That of course explains right away why I think it's crap. Seriously: what this desperately needs is a superposition of the familiar lines of the W. At the current state no-one can make heads or tails of this without a really long study. And the inscriptions of Custos Messium and Gloria Frederici don't really help my orientation either ;-) This picture may be historically and artistically valuable but scientifically and didactically completely unfit to depict the constellation. --BjKa (talk) 13:16, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alpha Cassiopeiae

This sentence in the second paragraph is very oddly worded: "...Schedar, is generally the brightest star in Cassiopeia, though is often shaded by Gamma Cassiopeiae,..."

What is meant here by "shaded"? Is that supposed to be "overshadowed"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kdconod (talk • contribs) 05:03, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's a colloquialism, meaning "edged", "slightly beaten", etc. γ Cas is variable. Should be reworded. Lithopsian (talk) 18:13, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Casiopea [sic] (band)

It would be worth adding to the namesakes section, the Japanese Jazz fusion band "Casiopea", a highly influential group in the 1980's Jazz music scene. While the spelling is different, this can easily be attributed to the fact that it is a transliteration of the Japanese katakana for the constellation "カシオぺヤ" (ka-shi-o-pe-a) 2601:193:8200:4F40:9000:BE86:113C:1405 (talk) 20:16, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Picard geodesy

I've added a sentence referencing the use of δ Cas by Jean Picard to measure the size of the Earth. Now I'm thinking it might be better in the article on that star itself. Certainly, it seems that anything mentioned "in passing" here about a star should really be in the linked article? It could also have more than one sentence (two, maybe!) at δ Cas, while even the mention here is pushing the limit of what is relevant in an article about the constellation. Lithopsian (talk) 14:40, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed a sentence or two may be all that is warranted. Similar to other Wiki articles describing uses of constellations.

“Ursa Minor has traditionally been important for navigation, particularly by mariners, because of Polaris being the north pole star.”

The Cepheus article does not contain the sentence “Due to Precession of the equinoxes Gamma Cephei, in Cepheus, will become the North Star at about 3,100 AD” (lack of good grammar excluded). Is that a good exclusion? I see this sentence possibly inspiring someone to three future steps. What is the north star, what is Gamma Cephei, what is precession of the equinoxes (axial precession).

Possibly to researching the precession of Uranus.

If a sentence in this article leads someone to study Picard’s use of δ Cas. It could open their eyes to how Picard’s writings of Cassiopea, and triangulation, lead to a very accurate measurement. Possibly understanding how using the tools available, can/has/will lead to scientific achievement. Is a child going to look to the sky for Cassiopea, or δ Cas? Philfromwaterbury (talk) 00:59, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]