I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Émile Zola
- Alderamin (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
ALDERAMIN (Alpha Cephei). Though Cepheus (the King) is famed in mythology as father to Andromeda, it is far from being one of the sky’s more prominent ancient constellations, its brightest star, Alderamin, just barely second magnitude (2.44).