Cepheus (

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

: Κηφεύς ''Kepheús'') may refer to:

In Greek mythology

* Cepheus (father of Andromeda), and King of Aethiopia *

Cepheus (king of Tegea) In Greek mythology, Cepheus (; Ancient Greek: Κηφεύς ''Kephéus'') was a king of Tegea in Arcadia. He was an Argonaut, and was, along with most of his twenty sons, killed in Heracles' war against Hippocoon, king of Sparta. He was perhaps the ...

, the king of Tegea, Arcadia

In astronomy

Cepheus (constellation) Cepheus is a constellation in the far northern sky, named after Cepheus, a king of Aethiopia in Greek mythology. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the second century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 constellations in ...

, one of the 88 modern constellations *

Cepheus (crater) Cepheus is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon, within one crater diameter of the larger crater Franklin to the southeast. To the north-north-east is the flooded crater Oersted. The proximity of this form ...

, a lunar impact crater

In Computing

Cepheus (poker bot) Cepheus is the first poker playing program that "essentially weakly solved" the game of heads-up limit Texas hold 'em. This was the first imperfect information game played competitively by humans to be essentially solved. It was developed by the ...

In modern fiction

* Cepheus Daidalos, a fictional character in the manga and anime, Saint Seiya * Cepheus, the FM king in Mega Man Star Force * In the

Galaxy Railways is a Japanese anime television series produced by Leiji Matsumoto, creator of ''Galaxy Express 999'', and is about flying trains set in the far reaches of outer space. It began airing on October 4, 2003. Funimation has licensed the anime for ...

, one of the squads is named the Cepheus Platoon.

Other uses

* USS Cepheus (AKA-18), an ''Andromeda'' class attack cargo ship {{disambiguation