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The constellation of Cassiopeia
author: J.Lodriguss/Novapix
reference: a-cst14-00012
Image Size 300 DPI: 32 * 21 cm
The constellation of Cassiopeia, the Queen, is seen in this wide-angle shot spanning a field of about 16 x 24 degrees. This bright section of the Milky Way is strewn with thousands of individual stars, star clouds, dark nebulae, red emission nebulae, and glittering star clusters. As we look at Cassiopeia, we are looking out into one of the outer arms of our own Milky Way galaxy, and away from the galaxy's center in Sagittarius.
The Double Cluster in Perseus (NGC 884 and NGC 869) and the Double Nebulae (IC 1805 and LBN 667) are at upper right. NGC 281, another emission nebula, is near Schedar (Alpha Cassiopeiae). IC 59 and IC 63 are two small faint nebulae near Gamma Cassiopeia, in the center of the constellation. Another very large complex of red emission nebulae, Ced 214 and NGC 7822 lie near the center of the bottom of the frame, and open cluster NGC 7789 is to the left of Caph. Open cluster M52 and NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, are at lower left. In mythology, Cassiopeia was married to Cepheus, the King, Their daughter was Andromeda, and her rescuer was Perseus.
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