Star profile
2 Cassiopeiae
Highly luminous starWhat is 2 Cassiopeiae
2 Cassiopeiae is a white, chemically peculiar Am-type giant, a spectral oddity betrayed by unusual abundances of certain metals in its atmosphere. It shines from more than seventeen hundred light-years away, making it one of the more distant luminous giants reachable by the unaided eye in Cassiopeia. Its light departed when the Roman Empire was beginning to fracture, long before this constellation took the name of the mythic queen.
Where it is and when to see it
2 Cassiopeiae 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 2 Cassiopeiae
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 1744.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 347.434° · Dec 59.333°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114365 · HD 218753
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Other stars in Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia has 93 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CihGamma Cassiopeiae2.15
- SchedarAlpha Cassiopeiae2.24
- CaphBeta Cassiopeiae2.28
- HIP 83625.63
- 21 Cassiopeiae5.64
- HIP 34785.66
- HIP 72515.69
- HIP 19825.72