One of the
largest of all constellations
sometimes considered a whale
(Cetus is Latinized Greek for the
word whale) . However, there
is nothing whale-like in the creature of the Perseus myth we are representing here.
Cetus
is a constellation of the southern
sky associated with & near the
‘water group’ - Aquarius,
Pisces & Eridanus.
This constellation
contains the prototype long-period variable star Mira (Omicron Ceti, pronounced ‘meara’), translated from Latin to mean
‘wonderful’, so named by Johannes
Hevelius. Mira is a huge star and also a binary. Mira A being a giant and Mira B a white dwarf.