Star profile
Misam
Kappa Persei · Perseus
What is Misam
Misam belongs to Perseus, the hero who beheaded Medusa and rescued Andromeda. An orange giant at 113 light-years, she is cool compared to her blue neighbours yet rich in spectral lines that betray elements forged in earlier stars. Her Arabic name «al-miʿṣam» means 'the wrist': another fragment of the body scattered across the medieval Islamic sky.
Where it is and when to see it
Misam 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 Misam
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.79
- Distance
- 112.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 47.374° · Dec 44.858°
- Catalogue
- HIP 14668 · HD 19476
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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
- Rho Persei3.32
- MiramEta Persei3.77
- Nu Persei3.77
- AtikOmicron Persei3.84
- Tau Persei3.93