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A dedicated star
Blaze Star
deep red · Corona Borealis · T CrB
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, Blaze Star becomes available again. Want it? Put the date in your calendar.
Blaze Star at a glance
- Constellation
- Corona Borealis
- Other name
- T CrB
- Catalogue number
- HIP 78322
- Distance
- ≈ 2,987 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 10.25 telescope
- Star type
- M3IIIe_sh
- Colour
- deep red
- Best seen from
- The Northern Hemisphere and lower southern latitudes
- Right ascension
- 15h 59m 30s
- Declination
- +25° 55′ 13″
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 Blaze Star?
Blaze Star is a red giant. Its surface runs under 4,000°C, which is cool as stars go and why the colour is unmistakably red. 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 red star still in the steady part of its life would burn for longer than the universe has yet existed. 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.
Blaze Star barely moves against the background sky, which is mostly a statement about how far away it is. For every practical purpose, including yours, it is fixed.
The light you are looking at is old
Blaze Star is about 2,987 light years away, so the light reaching you now set out around -961. 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.
Where can you see Blaze 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 64°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 26°N. It stands highest at midnight in May, so May and June evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 10.25 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Blaze Star belongs to Corona Borealis.
What does Blaze Star mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Blaze 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, Blaze Star stands at 20° Scorpio at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 8 November 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 Blaze Star
- What does Blaze Star mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Blaze Star. Projected onto the zodiac, Blaze Star stands at 20° Scorpio, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 8 November.
- Is Blaze Star the brightest star?
- Blaze Star shines at magnitude 10.25 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Blaze Star?
- Blaze Star is approximately 2,987 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 2,987 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Blaze Star?
- Blaze Star is part of Corona Borealis.
- Can everyone see Blaze 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 64°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 26°N. It stands highest at midnight in May, so May and June evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 10.25 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Blaze Star an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Blaze 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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