Taiyangshou

Its story

Taiyangshou preserves the ancient Chinese name given to this orange star in the Great Bear: literally, «the guardian of the Sun», a celestial sentinel watching over the source of daylight. It belongs to the orange giants, swollen by age and noticeably cooler than the Sun despite their luminous brightness. Its light crosses 184 light-years to reach us, a journey whose length matches almost exactly the entire history of photography as a recognised art.