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Alpha Ceti (α Ceti, abbreviated Alpha Cet, α Cet), officially named Menkar / ˈ m ɛ ŋ k ɑːr /, [9] [10] is the second-brightest star in the constellation of Cetus. It is a cool luminous red giant estimated to be about 250 light years away based on parallax.
Cetus (/ ˈ s iː t ə s /) is a constellation, sometimes called 'the whale' in English. The Cetus was a sea monster in Greek mythology which both Perseus and Heracles needed to slay. Cetus is in the region of the sky that contains other water-related constellations: Aquarius , Pisces and Eridanus .
Mira (/ ˈ m aɪ r ə /), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–300 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a variable red giant (Mira A) along with a white dwarf companion .
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Cetus, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F G. Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes ...
Mira B, also known as VZ Ceti, is the companion star to the variable star Mira, separated by around 100 AU.Suspected as early as 1918, it was visually confirmed in 1923 by Robert Grant Aitken, and has been observed more or less continually since then, most recently by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
HD 4732 is a red giant star of magnitude 5.9 located in the constellation Cetus. It is 189 light years from the Solar System. [3] HD 4732 is located in the celestial Southern Hemisphere, although it can be observed from most regions of the Earth. Near Antarctica the star is circumpolar, while it is always below the horizon near the Arctic. Its ...
Upsilon Ceti is an evolved red giant star with a stellar classification of M0III and is listed as a standard for that class. [4] The star has previously been classified as K5/M0III, [ 14 ] an interesting example of one of the "gaps" in the Morgan-Keenan classification system, with K6-9 often not used for giant stars or used only to indicate a ...
69 Ceti is a single [7] star located around 860 [1] light years away in the equatorial constellation of Cetus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.3. [2] This is an aging red giant star with a stellar classification of M1/2III. [3]