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Anadolu
Anadolu: the warm orange star of Pegasus
warm orange · Pegasus · WASP-52
Anadolu is a warm orange giant, far along its stellar life in the constellation Pegasus, one of the stars with a proper name recognised in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. At magnitude 11.95 it is a binocular or telescope object.
Most stars in the sky are anonymous points of light. Anadolu is not. Some IAU-recognised names are ancient; others were adopted by the IAU only recently. Either way, the star already has a scientific identity, and a dedication attaches a human story to it.
Real star · Personal dedication · Recorded in the AsterNym registry
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Anadolu at a glance
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Other name
- WASP-52
- Catalogue number
- WASP-52
- Distance
- ≈ 570 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 11.95 telescope
- Star type
- K2V
- Colour
- warm orange
- Best seen from
- Almost everywhere on Earth
- Right ascension
- 23h 13m 59s
- Declination
- +08° 45′ 41″
J2000 catalogue coordinates that can be independently cross-checked against astronomical databases. A planetarium app showing coordinates of date will differ slightly, because proper motion and precession move a star’s apparent position over time.
What kind of star is Anadolu?
Anadolu is an orange main-sequence star. Its surface runs roughly 4,000 to 5,000°C, cool enough that the light carries a visible orange. Colour in a star is a temperature reading rather than a decoration: the hot ones are blue and the cool ones red, the opposite way round to a kitchen tap.
Nothing of this kind has ever died of old age, anywhere, because the universe is not old enough yet. Every one that has ever formed is still burning.
A star of this class gets twenty to fifty thousand million years, far longer than the universe has yet existed.
It is a main-sequence star, which despite the word dwarf simply means it is in the long stable middle of its life, fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun is doing now.
The light you are looking at is old
Anadolu is about 570 light years away, so the light reaching you now set out around 1456. You are not looking at the star as it is. You are looking at the star as it was, and there is no way to see it any other way.
That delay is the part people find hardest and like most. A star is the one thing you can give someone that was already old before either of you was born and will outlast anything else you could have chosen.
It sits at the edge of what an unaided eye can do, so finding it is a deliberate act rather than an accident.
What could a Anadolu dedication represent?
Anadolu is especially meaningful for someone who:
- · Deserves something older than any gift shop
- · Marks a beginning, an anniversary or a promise
- · Is remembered every time you look up
- · Has a light you want recorded somewhere permanent
Dedication idea
“For the one I think of when I find Pegasus in the sky.”
Where can you see Anadolu?
It sits 9° north of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 81°S, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 9°N. It stands highest at midnight in September, so September and October evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 11.95 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Anadolu belongs to Pegasus.
What does Anadolu mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Anadolu, and we don’t invent lore where none exists. What astrology can still read is the star’s real position, below.
Projected onto the zodiac the way fixed-star astrology reads any star, Anadolu stands at 22° Pisces at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 13 March in the years around 2000. Fixed-star longitude shifts slowly against the tropical zodiac because of precession, about one degree every seventy-two years, so a natal conjunction must be calculated for the birth year rather than read off this J2000 value or a calendar date.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. The position and dates are computed.
Dedicate Anadolu to someone who matters
A flower fades. A card is eventually put away. A star gives your message a place in the sky.
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Dedicate Anadolu →Real star · your message · a page to share
Your Anadolu dedication includes
- Your chosen dedication name
- Your personal message
- Anadolu's real astronomical coordinates
- A shareable dedication page
- Its location on the AsterNym Galaxy Map
- An optional printable certificate and gift presentation
Anadolu keeps its established astronomical name. Your dedication is a personal commemorative record within the AsterNym registry.
Frequently asked questions about Anadolu
- What does Anadolu mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Anadolu. Projected onto the zodiac, Anadolu stands at 22° Pisces, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 13 March.
- Is Anadolu the brightest star?
- Anadolu shines at magnitude 11.95 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Anadolu?
- Anadolu is approximately 570 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 570 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Anadolu?
- Anadolu is part of Pegasus.
- Can everyone see Anadolu?
- It sits 9° north of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 81°S, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 9°N. It stands highest at midnight in September, so September and October evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 11.95 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Anadolu an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Anadolu keeps its internationally recognised astronomical name. An AsterNym dedication records your personal name and message in the AsterNym registry without changing the star's scientific identity.
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