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A dedicated star
Bélénos
yellow-white · Pisces · HD 8574
Dedicated to
Maya
by Her sister, June · August 12, 2026
“You were born on the brightest night of my life. Whenever you feel small, remember: there is a star that has carried your name since before you could read it, and it is still up there, still burning, still yours.”
This dedication
- Dedicated to
- Maya
- Dedicated by
- Her sister, June
- Recorded
- August 12, 2026
- Held until
- August 12, 2027
When this dedication ends, Bélénos becomes available again. Want it? Put the date in your calendar.
Bélénos at a glance
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Other name
- HD 8574
- Catalogue number
- HIP 6643
- Distance
- ≈ 145 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 7.12 telescope
- Star type
- F8
- Colour
- yellow-white
- Best seen from
- The Northern Hemisphere and lower southern latitudes
- Right ascension
- 01h 25m 13s
- Declination
- +28° 34′ 00″
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 Bélénos?
Bélénos is a yellow-white star. Its surface runs about 6,000 to 7,500°C, a shade hotter than the Sun. 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.
A little brighter and a little shorter-lived than the Sun, and near the edge of the range where a planet could plausibly hold liquid water for long enough to matter.
A star of this class gets two to four thousand million years.
Bélénos moves noticeably against the background sky, about 30 arcseconds a century. The constellation it belongs to will not have quite this shape in ten thousand years.
The light you are looking at is old
The light arriving from Bélénos tonight left in about 1881, some 145 years ago. Everything that has happened since, every person you have heard of from the last few centuries, happened while it was in transit.
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.
Where can you see Bélénos?
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 61°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 29°N. It stands highest at midnight in October, so October and November evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 7.12 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Bélénos belongs to Pisces.
What does Bélénos mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Bélénos, 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, Bélénos stands at 0° Taurus at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 20 April 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.
Frequently asked questions about Bélénos
- What does Bélénos mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Bélénos. Projected onto the zodiac, Bélénos stands at 0° Taurus, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 20 April.
- Is Bélénos the brightest star?
- Bélénos shines at magnitude 7.12 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Bélénos?
- Bélénos is approximately 145 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 145 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Bélénos?
- Bélénos is part of Pisces.
- Can everyone see Bélénos?
- 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 61°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 29°N. It stands highest at midnight in October, so October and November evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 7.12 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Bélénos an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Bélénos 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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