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Messier 52 or M52, also known as NGC 7654 or the Scorpion Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the highly northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1774. [ 3 ] [ a ] It can be seen from Earth under a good night sky with binoculars .
Cassiopeia (listen ⓘ) is a constellation and asterism in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda, in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty. Cassiopeia was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today.
1 Cassiopeiae is a single [10] star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, located around 1,130 light years from the Sun. [1] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.84. [2]
Theta Cassiopeiae or θ Cassiopeiae is a solitary [3] star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia.It shares the traditional name Marfak / ˈ m ɑːr f æ k / with μ Cassiopeiae, positioned less than half a degree to the WSW, [11] which is derived from the Arabic term Al Marfik or Al Mirfaq (المرفق), meaning "the elbow". [12]
Rho Cassiopeiae (/ ˌ r oʊ k æ s i ə ˈ p iː aɪ,-s i oʊ-,-iː /; ρ Cas, ρ Cassiopeiae) is a yellow hypergiant star in the constellation Cassiopeia.It is about 8,150 light-years (2,500 pc) from Earth, yet can still be seen by the naked eye as it is over 300,000 times brighter than the Sun.
Lambda Cassiopeiae, Latinized from λ Cassiopeiae, is a binary star system, in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. The system has a combined apparent magnitude of +4.74, making it faintly visible to the naked eye. With an annual parallax shift of 8.64 mass, [1] it is approximately 380 light years from Earth.
Sigma Cassiopeiae (σ Cas, σ Cassiopeiae) is a binary star in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is 1,200 to 1,400 light years from Earth and has a combined apparent magnitude of +4.88, [ 9 ] making it visible to the naked eye .
A light curve for Iota Cassiopeiae, plotted from TESS data [11]. Iota Cassiopeiae is known to be a quintuple star system. The brightest star system, ι Cassiopeiae A, contains a white-colored A-type main-sequence star with a mean apparent magnitude of +4.61. [1]