hip-1960

Hot blue star

Its story

12 Cassiopeiae reaches us from 702 light-years away: the light we see today set out when the Normans were sailing toward Sicily. It is a hot, young blue-white B-type, perched on the unmistakable W of Cassiopeia. The vain queen, bound to her throne in punishment, wheels endlessly around the celestial north pole —and this star wheels with her, turn after turn.

Constellation: Cassiopeia
Apparent magnitude: 5.38
Distance: 701.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 6.198° · Dec 61.831°
Catalogue: HIP 1960 · HD 2011

Take your star to the gift that suits you best.

Choose a tier

Symbolic commemorative gift — no ownership, no IAU recognition.