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The southernmost star of Cassiopeia's famed Chair, Shedar is also the brightest, though not by much and not all of the time.
Behind the scenes on the Slusho set Dennis 2007
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Children were issued mystifying diagrams of the night sky at various seasons, with imagined lines connecting the dots into the most improbable pictures -- how could the ancients have seen those specks of light as Cassiopeia's Chair?
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999
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The North Star is straight out from the center star of Cassiopeia's chair.
FM 44-48 Appendix C - Determining Direction in the Field United States Army 1993
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It is almost equidistant between the Big Dipper and the Cassiopeia's chair. (see the Big Dipper illustration).
FM 44-48 Appendix C - Determining Direction in the Field United States Army 1993
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Directly across from the Big Dipper is the constellation Cassiopeia's chair.
FM 44-48 Appendix C - Determining Direction in the Field United States Army 1993
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Aldebaran > (A red star forming the eye of the bull in the constellation of Taurus; in the northern hemisphere, in this relationship to Cassiopeia the season would be winter, the time of greatest darkness and cold) 2 Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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His biographer, Ward, concludes his life in the following glowing terms: -- "Thus lived and died the eminent Dr. More: thus set this bright and illustrious star, vanishing by degrees out of our sight after, to the surprise and admiration of many, (like that which was observed in Cassiopeia's chair,) it had illuminated, as it were, both worlds so long at once."
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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Bear -- or the Virgin seating herself in Cassiopeia's Chair.
Mary Minds Her Business George Weston
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Cassiopeia's white arms were hidden by the mountains, but the Milky Way shimmered in the east, and overhead Arcturus blazed as he had done in the days when the patriarch Job recorded his brilliance.
For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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Full in front of him, over Harwich town, hung the dainty constellation of Cassiopeia's chair, and all around the vast army of heaven moved, silent and radiant.
The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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