I found Cassiopeia by looking north along the horizon. Cassiopeia forms a W. Ptolemy charted this constellation and it is still considered one of the 88 modern constellations. The ancient Greeks told the story of the vain queen Cassiopeia who thought she and her daughter Andromeda were the most beautiful on Earth. She was ultimately punished by Poseidon by being placed in the Heavens in a place where through half of the year she was upside-down. 
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