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Bajamar Star
Bajamar Star: the blue star of Cygnus
blue · Cygnus · 2MASS J20555125+4352246
Bajamar Star is a blue star in the constellation Cygnus, one of the stars with a proper name recognised in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. At magnitude 13.09 it is a binocular or telescope object.
Most stars in the sky are anonymous points of light. Bajamar Star 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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Bajamar Star at a glance
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Other name
- 2MASS J20555125+4352246
- Catalogue number
- 2MASS J20555125+4352246
- Distance
- ≈ 2,574 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 13.09 telescope
- Star type
- O3.5III(f*)+O8
- Colour
- blue
- Best seen from
- The Northern Hemisphere and lower southern latitudes
- Right ascension
- 20h 55m 51s
- Declination
- +43° 52′ 24″
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 Bajamar Star?
Bajamar Star is a blue giant. Its surface runs over 30,000°C at the surface, hot enough that it glows blue rather than white. 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.
Its colour is not the whole story. A blue star still in the steady part of its life would burn for a few million years. This one is past that stage, and it is cool at the surface because it has swollen outward, not because it was born this way.
It is a giant, which is what a star becomes when it exhausts the hydrogen in its core. It has swollen outward and cooled at the surface, and it is now brighter than it ever was as a young star. The Sun will do this too, in about five thousand million years.
The light you are looking at is old
Bajamar Star is about 2,574 light years away, so the light reaching you now set out around -548. 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 Bajamar Star dedication represent?
Bajamar Star 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 Cygnus in the sky.”
Where can you see Bajamar Star?
It is easy to see from most of the Northern Hemisphere. It can also appear from lower southern latitudes, but it never rises for observers south of about latitude 46°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 44°N. It stands highest at midnight in August, so August and September evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 13.09 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Bajamar Star belongs to Cygnus.
What does Bajamar Star mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Bajamar Star, 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, Bajamar Star stands at 8° Pisces at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 26 February 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 Bajamar Star 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 Bajamar Star →Real star · your message · a page to share
Your Bajamar Star dedication includes
- Your chosen dedication name
- Your personal message
- Bajamar Star's real astronomical coordinates
- A shareable dedication page
- Its location on the AsterNym Galaxy Map
- An optional printable certificate and gift presentation
Bajamar Star keeps its established astronomical name. Your dedication is a personal commemorative record within the AsterNym registry.
Frequently asked questions about Bajamar Star
- What does Bajamar Star mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Bajamar Star. Projected onto the zodiac, Bajamar Star stands at 8° Pisces, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 26 February.
- Is Bajamar Star the brightest star?
- Bajamar Star shines at magnitude 13.09 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Bajamar Star?
- Bajamar Star is approximately 2,574 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 2,574 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Bajamar Star?
- Bajamar Star is part of Cygnus.
- Can everyone see Bajamar Star?
- It is easy to see from most of the Northern Hemisphere. It can also appear from lower southern latitudes, but it never rises for observers south of about latitude 46°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 44°N. It stands highest at midnight in August, so August and September evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 13.09 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Bajamar Star an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Bajamar Star 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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