Rho+Cassiopeia

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Other Stars in Cassiopeia
**About (Cassiopeia)** In order to find Cassiopeia you must find the Big Dipper. It is almost directly across from that, past the North Star. Heading east. It is kind of like a sideways "W" shape. It is just near the Little Dipper.
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Well, the myth of Cassiopeia is such as Cassiopeia was a queen. Cepheus ,her husband, the Ethiopian king of Joppa. The queen was both good looking, and was vain. She let her daughter get saved by Perseus. Since her daughter was in a monsters mouth. She made a promise to let Perseus marry her daughter, Andromeda. At the wedding Cassiopeia is claimed to have say "Perseus must die!" Perseus had recently killed Medusa. He retrieved Medusa's head and when he waved it in the air the whole wedding party was turned to stone. Since Cassiopeia was so vain, she is now forced to sit upside down half of the time.

Parallax (A way to measure distance in space)
Parallax is just a distance measure. It measures the angular distance a star appears to move.
 * 1) The first step of parallax : Different locations. From the opposite sides of the Sun.
 * 2) The second step of parallax: Measure the distance star appeared to move, angular distance.
 * 3) Divide one by your parallax angle to get the stellar parallax. In my case, 1 divided by 0.0003" is 3333 parsecs