Colorverse Project No. 011 a And

Colorverse A And from the Project collection is a pale gray-purple ink with low shading. It dries in 30 seconds in a medium nib on Rhodia and has a dry flow. Colorverse ink is made in Korea.

Andromedais one of the 48constellationslisted by the 2nd-centuryastronomerPtolemy, and one of the88 modern constellations.

Located in the northern hemisphere, it is named forAndromeda, daughter of Cassiopeia, in theGreek myth, who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monsterCetus. Prior to the Greeks naming Andromeda, the Babylonians also recognized the collection of stars as a female figure. InChinese astronomy, the stars that make up Andromeda were members of four different constellations that had astrological and mythological significance; a constellation related to Andromeda also exists in Hindu mythology.

Its brightest star,Alpha Andromedae (And), is abinary starthat has also been counted as a part ofPegasus. The constellation’s most obvious deep-sky object is theAndromeda Galaxy which isthe closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and visible to the naked-eye.The constellation is most easily visible in November.