Star Light, Star Bright

This is my tribute to the **stars**

You're the star I love to look at each night, a star I can't reach. I'm a fool who doesn't know when to quit. Maybe, I just don't want to. 'Cause maybe, just maybe, my star would someday fall for me...

My star in the sixth grade science lesson was Cassiopeia...
Cassiopeia is a northern constellation which greek mythology considered to represent a vain queen. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy. Cassiopeia contains two stars visible to the naked eye that rank among the most luminous in the galaxy. This beautiful constellation at the edge of the Milky Way has definetely the shape of a "W". It is associated with the Perseus constellation family.

Cassiopeia is one of the stars that orbits the Polestar throughout the year. It is shaped like a W, with a makeup of five second- and third-magnitude stars, and has been a well-known constellation since ancient times. It contains about 370 variable stars and the large variety of clusters and binaries make it easily viewable with even a small telescope. It has been known in ancient Japan as the "Yamagata Star" and "Ikari Star." After dark in Fall months, turn your back on the direction the sun went down and then shift a bit northward; you will be looking to the north-east. Starting straight overhead at the zenith, measure 2 palm-widths down towards the northeast. You will see there a group of five stars forming a "lazy M". This is the constellation Cassiopeia, or "Cassiopeia's Chair". You can see why it is also called the "Celestial M". As the night progresses, this northern constellation swings counterclockwise around the polestar Polaris and towards morning will become the "Celestial W".

Mythology
Cassiopeia was a queen and the wife of Cepheus, the Ethiopian king of Joppa (now known as Jaffa, in Israel), and the mother of Andromeda. The queen was both beautiful and vain, and the story of how her vanity caused great distress is told in relation to the constellation Andromeda. After promising her daughter in marriage to Perseus, Cassiopeia had second thoughts. She convinced one of Poseidon's sons, Agenor, to disrupt the ceremony by claiming Andromeda for himself. Agenor arrived with an entire army, and a fierce struggle ensued. In the battle Cassiopeia is said to have cried "Perseus must die". At any rate it was Perseus who was victorious, with the help of the Gorgon's head. Perseus had recently slain Medusa, the Gorgon, and had put its head in a bed of coral. He retrieved the head and waved it in midst of the warring wedding party, instantly turning them all to stone. In the group was both Cepheus and Cassiopeia. A contrite Poseidon put both father and mother in the heavens. But because of Cassiopeia's vanity, he placed her in a chair which revolves around the Pole Star, so half the time she's obliged to sit upside down.

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"O Star" by Robert Frost
O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud-
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturnIn your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we an learn
By heart and when alone repeat.Say something!
And it says, "I burn."
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may take something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.
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"Catch A Falling Star" by Perry Como
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
For love may come and tap you on the shoulder some starless night
Just in case you feel you want to hold her
You'll have a pocketful of starlight
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
For love may come and tap you on the shoulder some starless night
Just in case you feel you want to hold herYou'll have a pocketful of starlight
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocke
tNever let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
For when your troubles start multiplyin' and they just might
It's easy to forget them without tryin'
With just a pocketful of starlight
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
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