Bragging about your daughter's beauty can have serious consequences!

 

The constellations Cassiopeia, Perseus and Andromeda, Fixed tripod mounted Canon 400d DSLR with zoom lens at f=18mm. Stacked image cropped. Credit: Karl Segin.

" As far as I can remember, Queen Cassiopeia was 'bigging up' her daughter Andromeda's beauty and right jarred off the goddess Hera. As a consequence Andromeda got  chained to a rock at the seaside awaiting the the arrival of the Kraken, a beast known for its insatiable hunger and a taste for young ladies from good families. It would have ended rather badly but for the timely arrival of Perseus, a strapping Greek lad, astride a winged horse named Pegasus. Perseus, armed only with a shield and the Gorgon's head in a sack, turned the Kraken to stone. Literally petrified!  The Milky Way runs through the constellations Cassiopeia and Perseus and there is much to see with dust and nebulosity in ready supply"- Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.