Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
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Constellation | Cepheus |
Right ascension | 21h 19m 15.682s [1] |
Declination | +58° 37′ 24.550″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.51 - 5.71 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | M1epIb + B [3] |
U−B color index | 0.00 [4] |
B−V color index | +1.34 [4] |
Variable type | Lc [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −14.10 [5] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: −1.435 [6] mas/yr Dec.: −5.427 [6] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 1.59 ± 0.23 mas [6] |
Distance | approx. 2,100 ly (approx. 630 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | −5.2 [7] |
Details | |
Aa | |
Mass | 7.2 [8] - 16 [9] M☉ |
Radius | 977 [10] R☉ |
Luminosity | 178,000 [10] L☉ |
Temperature | 3,745±170 [1] [10] K |
Ab | |
Mass | 13 [9] M☉ |
B | |
Mass | 7.1 [11] M☉ |
Radius | 3.4 [12] R☉ |
Luminosity | 1,487 [12] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 4.18 [12] cgs |
Temperature | 19,965 [12] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.30 [11] dex |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 42.8 [13] km/s |
Age | 49.1 [8] Myr |
Other designations | |
A: HD 203338 | |
B: HD 203339 | |
Database references | |
A | |
B |
V381 Cephei (HR 8164) is a triple star system in the northern constellation of Cepheus. Its apparent magnitude is slightly variable between 5.5 and 5.7.
V381 Cephei is a visual double star with components A and B separated by 4.6". The primary is HD 203338 and the secondary is the magnitude 9.2 HD 203339. [9]
HD 203338 is itself a spectroscopic binary with components Aa and Ab orbiting every 280 years. [9] It forms a VV Cephei-type binary system with a hot companion which is accreting mass from the primary. The long period means that it exhibits fewer peculiarities than other VV Cephei binaries. [14]
Component Aa is a red supergiant and its close companion is a B2 main sequence star. The supergiant is a pulsating variable with a small amplitude and poorly defined period. It is generally given spectral class qualifiers indicating peculiarities and emission, which may be associated with the disc around the hot secondary. [14]
Component B, HD 203339, is a B3 main sequence star with a mass around 11 M☉. [9]
Mu Cephei, also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, Erakis, or HD 206936, is a red supergiant or hypergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at the edge of the IC 1396 nebula. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as a spectral standard by which other stars are classified.
VV Cephei, also known as HD 208816, is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 5,000 light years from Earth. It is both a B[e] star and shell star.
Nu Caeli is a yellow-white hued star in the constellation Caelum. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6.07, which indicates it is near the lower limit on brightness that is visible to the naked eye. According to the Bortle scale, the star can be viewed from dark suburban skies. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 20.3 mas as seen from Earth, this star is located 161 light years from the Sun.
CS Camelopardalis is a binary star in reflection nebula VdB 14, in the constellation Camelopardalis.
V354 Cephei is a red supergiant star located within the Milky Way. It is an irregular variable located over 8,900 light-years away from the Sun. It has an estimated radius of 685 solar radii. If it were placed in the center of the Solar System, it would extend to between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Zeta Cephei is a star in the constellation of Cepheus. Zeta Cephei marks the left shoulder of Cepheus, the King of Joppa (Ethiopia). It is one of the fundamental stars of the MK spectral sequence, defined as type K1.5 Ib.
13 Vulpeculae is a blue giant with a stellar classification of class B9.5III in the northern constellation Vulpecula. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.57 and it is approximately 339 light years away from the Sun based on parallax. The star is radiating 180 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,801 K.
15 Vulpeculae is a variable star in the northern constellation of Vulpecula, located approximately 243 light years away based on parallax. It has the variable star designation NT Vulpeculae; 15 Vulpeculae is the Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with a typical apparent visual magnitude of 4.66. This object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −26 km/s.
49 Cassiopeiae is a binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cassiopeia. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.22. The system is located about 412 light years away from the Sun, based on parallax. The pair had an angular separation of 5.40″ along a position angle of 244°, as of 2008, with the brighter component being of magnitude 5.32 and its faint companion having magnitude 12.30.
HD 204521 is a star in the northern constellation of Cepheus. In the sky it positioned just to the west of the magnitude 3.2 star Beta Cephei. This object has a yellow hue similar to the Sun but is too faint to be visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 7.26. It is located at a distance of 86 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and has an absolute magnitude of 5.15. The star is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −77 km/s, and is predicted to come to within 7.96 light-years in 334,000 years. At that distance the star can have a relatively small perturbing effect on comets in the Oort cloud.
HD 102839 is a class G6Ib star in the constellation Musca. Its apparent magnitude is 4.98 and it is approximately 1,550 light years away from Earth based on parallax.
Sigma Ophiuchi, Latinized from σ Ophiuchi, is a single, orange-hued star in the equatorial constellation Ophiuchus. Its apparent visual magnitude is 4.31, which is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye. The annual parallax shift of 3.62 mas as seen from Earth provides a distance estimate of roughly 900 light years. It is moving closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −28 km/s.
π Pavonis, Latinized as Pi Pavonis, is a candidate astrometric binary star system in the constellation Pavo. It is a white-hued star that is visible to the naked eye as a faint point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.33. The distance to this object is 130 light years based on parallax, but it is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −15.6 km/s.
Rho Pavonis, Latinized from ρ Pavonis, is a single, variable star in the southern constellation of Pavo. It is yellow-white in hue and faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 4.86. The star is located at a distance of approximately 190 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +8 km/s. It is a candidate outlying member of the Tucana Association of co-moving stars.
QZ Puppis is a class B2.5V star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.5 and it is approximately 650 light years away based on parallax.
1 Puppis is a single star in the southern constellation of Puppis. It lies in the northern part of the constellation at a distance of about 790 ly, east of Aludra in Canis Major and just north of the white supergiant, 3 Puppis. This object is visible to the naked eye as a faint, red-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.59. It is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +32.4 km/s.
HD 59890 is a class G3Ib yellow supergiant star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.65 and it is approximately 1,360 light years away based on parallax.
HD 54893, often called A Puppis is a suspected variable star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.83 and is approximately 860 light years away based on parallax.
V419 Cephei is an irregular variable star in the constellation of Cepheus with an apparent magnitude that varies between 6.54 and 6.89.
36 Camelopardalis is a single star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.3. Parallax measurements provide a distance estimate of approximately 710 light years away from the Sun, and it is drifting away from the Earth with a radial velocity of −1.15 km/s.