Star profile
Zeta Capricorni
What is Zeta Capricorni
Zeta Capricorni is a textbook barium star: a yellow giant whose atmosphere was salted aeons ago with heavy elements —praseodymium, carbon— transferred from a companion that has since collapsed into a white dwarf. What looks like a single light is actually the fossil of an intimate exchange between two stars.
Where it is and when to see it
Zeta Capricorni lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 Zeta Capricorni
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.77
- Distance
- 385.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 321.667° · Dec -22.411°
- Catalogue
- HIP 105881 · HD 204075
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Other stars in Capricornus
Capricornus has 48 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Deneb AlgediDelta Capricorni2.85
- DabihBeta Capricorni3.05
- AlgediAlpha 2 Capricorni3.58
- NashiraGamma Capricorni3.69
- Theta Capricorni4.08
- Omega Capricorni4.12
- Psi Capricorni4.13
- Iota Capricorni4.28