Star profile
Iota Cassiopeiae
Variable starWhat is Iota Cassiopeiae
Iota Cassiopeiae is a white A-type star whose light reaches Earth after 133 years of travel. It belongs to the retinue of Cassiopeia, the queen seated on her throne whose W-shape dominates the northern circumpolar sky. Catalogued as slightly variable, its brightness shifts almost imperceptibly —small fluctuations that only the patient eye and modern instruments can pick out from the otherwise fixed stage of the constellations.
Where it is and when to see it
Iota 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 November: 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 Iota Cassiopeiae
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.46
- Distance
- 132.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 37.267° · Dec 67.402°
- Catalogue
- HIP 11569 · HD 15089
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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
- 50 Cassiopeiae3.95
- Kappa Cassiopeiae4.17
- Theta Cassiopeiae4.34
- Omicron Cassiopeiae4.48
- 48 Cassiopeiae4.49