Star profile
Gamma Persei
Variable starWhat is Gamma Persei
Gamma Persei keeps watch in the northern heart of Perseus, a yellow G-type giant whose light —dispatched 243 years ago— now arrives with a subtle wink. It belongs to the rare club of long-period eclipsing binaries: every fourteen years, an unseen companion drifts across its face and dims it briefly, an event astronomers await like a returning comet. A quiet star in a constellation crowded with louder names.
Where it is and when to see it
Gamma Persei 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 Gamma Persei
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.91
- Distance
- 243.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 46.199° · Dec 53.506°
- Catalogue
- HIP 14328 · HD 18925
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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
- Epsilon Persei2.90
- Delta Persei3.01
- Rho Persei3.32
- MiramEta Persei3.77
- Nu Persei3.77