Kap

Hot blue star

Its story

Kappa Cephei burns at three hundred and fifteen light-years, a blue B-type star within the silhouette of the Ethiopian king Cepheus, the father who handed Andromeda to the sea monster. Its surface reaches extreme temperatures that tint its light an icy white, nearly violet to the trained eye. It is one of the pieces drawing the inverted crown of the mythological sovereign near the celestial north pole.

Constellation: Cepheus
Apparent magnitude: 4.38
Distance: 314.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 302.222° · Dec 77.711°
Catalogue: HIP 99255 · HD 192907

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