Garnet Star
HR 8316 · HIP 107259 · µ Cep
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.08 mag
- Spectral type
- M2Ia
- Right ascension
- 325.8769°
- Declination
- 58.78°
- Designation
- HR 8316
- Bayer designation
- µ Cep
- HIP number
- 107259
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-09-19
- Name language
- English
- Name origin (IAU)
- Piazzi (1803) named the star Garnet Sidus due to a description by W. Herschel (1773) as "deep garnet red"; the English name is well-established in recent literature and textbooks.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 58.8° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
- Its IAU name «Garnet Star» comes from English (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.