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A dedicated star
Bubup
pale · Mensa · HD 38283
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, Bubup becomes available again. Want it? Put the date in your calendar.
Bubup at a glance
- Constellation
- Mensa
- Other name
- HD 38283
- Catalogue number
- HIP 26380
- Distance
- ≈ 125 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 6.69 telescope
- Star type
- WN...
- Colour
- pale
- Best seen from
- The far southern sky
- Right ascension
- 05h 37m 02s
- Declination
- −73° 41′ 58″
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 Bubup?
Bubup is catalogued as a pale star and its spectral type is not cleanly classified in the data behind this page, so what follows stays with what has been measured rather than what could be inferred from it.
Bubup drifts about 17.5 arcseconds a century against the stars behind it. Slow by any human measure, and still enough that the sky your distant descendants see will not be the one in your photographs.
The light you are looking at is old
The light arriving from Bubup tonight left in about 1901, some 125 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 Bubup?
It is a deep-southern star: easy from Australia, New Zealand, southern Africa and South America, but it never rises for observers north of about latitude 16°N. It passes directly overhead at latitude 74°S. It stands highest at midnight in December, so December and January evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 6.69 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Bubup belongs to Mensa.
What does Bubup mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Bubup, 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, Bubup stands at 12° Capricorn at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 1 January 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 Bubup
- What does Bubup mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Bubup. Projected onto the zodiac, Bubup stands at 12° Capricorn, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 1 January.
- Is Bubup the brightest star?
- Bubup shines at magnitude 6.69 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Bubup?
- Bubup is approximately 125 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 125 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Bubup?
- Bubup is part of Mensa.
- Can everyone see Bubup?
- It is a deep-southern star: easy from Australia, New Zealand, southern Africa and South America, but it never rises for observers north of about latitude 16°N. It passes directly overhead at latitude 74°S. It stands highest at midnight in December, so December and January evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 6.69 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Bubup an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Bubup 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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