Cepheus in Chinese astronomy information

of Cepheus near the border of Ursa Minor (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 6 日 (in Chinese) AEEA...

Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese 星官 xīng guān)...

Chinese star names (Chinese: 星名, xīng míng) are named according to ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology. The sky is divided into star mansions (星宿,...

Cassiopeia to the northwest. In addition to Taurus, Perseus and Auriga reign overhead. From the same latitude, in July, Cepheus appears to the northeast along...

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Some stars within the far northern constellation (such as Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor) roughly north of the Tropic of Cancer (23° 26′ N)...

includes several constellations associated with the Perseus myth: Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Andromeda, Perseus, Pegasus, and Cetus (representing the monster sent...

Precession will next point the north celestial pole at stars in the northern constellation Cepheus. The pole will drift to space equidistant between Polaris...

In astronomy, axial precession is a gravity-induced, slow, and continuous change in the orientation of an astronomical body's rotational axis. In the...

only a few hundred have been given proper names in the history of astronomy. Traditional astronomy tends to group stars into constellations or asterisms...

00224+638. Cepheus X-1 is actually in the constellation Cassiopeia, and it is SN 1572, the Tycho SNR. The supernova remnant of B Cas was discovered in the 1960s...

officially named Alderamin /ælˈdɛrəmɪn/, is a second magnitude star in the constellation of Cepheus near the northern pole. The star is relatively close to Earth...

a binary star system approximately 45 light-years away in the northern constellation of Cepheus. The primary (designated Gamma Cephei A, officially named...

Constellations and Star Names to the Classical Period: An Annotated Bibliography (Un)Common Star Names This article includes an astronomy-related list of lists....

212710, also known as BD+85 383, SAO 3721, HR 8546, HIP 109693 is a star in Cepheus with an apparent magnitude of 5.258 and a spectral type of B9.5 Vn, indicating...

the constellation Cepheus. The star Zeta Cephei is specifically named after him. A famous presentation of the story is available in the Tale of King Mu...

below) in Zeta Cephei within Cepheus (Chinese astronomy); Book of Jin, Spring 1988:198) or in the constellation Scorpius (Harrist 1997:135-6). In Modern...

This is a list of Arabic star names. In Western astronomy, most of the accepted star names are Arabic, a few are Greek and some are of unknown origin....

Epsilon Cephei, Latinized from ε Cephei, is a star in the northern constellation of Cepheus. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 38.17 mas as seen from...

observational events in European astronomy. The earliest forms of these symbols appear in Greek papyrus texts of late antiquity. The Byzantine codices in which many...

representing a giraffe. The constellation was introduced in 1612 or 1613 by Petrus Plancius. Some older astronomy books give Camelopardalus or Camelopardus as alternative...

Cephei, abbreviated Xi Cep, ξ Cep) is a multiple star system in the constellation of Cepheus. It is approximately 86 light-years from Earth. It consists...