Star profile
Miram
Eta Persei · Perseus
Highly luminous starWhat is Miram
Miram shines in Perseus, the hero who beheaded Medusa, and forms part of the robust silhouette of the mythic figure. A luminous orange K-class giant nearly 880 light-years away, it is an old and immense star whose brilliance, softened by distance, reaches the eye much gentler than it truly is. The light caught by the pupil tonight left its surface around the time of the Norman conquest of England.
Where it is and when to see it
Miram 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, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 86° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 75° up.
- From Sydney it culminates about 1° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 34° S.
It ranks no. 8 in brightness among the 99 stars of Perseus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Mirfak, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 880 years ago.
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Astronomical data for Miram
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.77
- Distance
- 879.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 42.674° · Dec 55.895°
- Catalogue
- HIP 13268 · HD 17506
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Other stars in Perseus
Perseus has 99 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- MirfakAlpha Persei1.79
- AlgolBeta Persei2.09
- Zeta Persei2.84
- Gamma Persei2.91
- Delta Persei3.01
- Rho Persei3.32
- Nu Persei3.77
- MisamKappa Persei3.79