Star profile
6 Cepheus
Variable starWhat is 6 Cepheus
6 Cephei is a variable blue B-type star nearly 2,000 light-years away, a vast distance that betrays its true power: to be visible from so far it must outshine the Sun by thousands of times. It belongs to Cepheus, the constellation that lent its name to the Cepheid variables —pulsating stars that allowed Henrietta Leavitt to measure the scale of the cosmos. Its light set out when the Roman Empire was still a young idea.
Where it is and when to see it
6 Cepheus lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 6 Cepheus
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.19
- Distance
- 1989.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 319.843° · Dec 64.872°
- Catalogue
- HIP 105268 · HD 203467
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Other stars in Cepheus
Cepheus has 95 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlderaminAlpha Cepheus2.45
- ErraiGamma Cepheus3.21
- AlfirkBeta Cepheus3.23
- HIP 194615.10
- HIP 1083175.11
- HIP 1072305.18
- 30 Cepheus5.19
- HIP 1095725.24