Amazed, and as if astonished and stupefied, I stood still, gazing … intently upon it and noticing that same star placed close to the stars which antiquity attributed to Cassiopeia. When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone forth before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes. … And at length, having confirmed that my vision was not deceiving me, but in fact that an unusual star existed there … immediately I got ready my instrument. I began to measure its situation and distance from the neighboring stars in Cassiopeia.