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A dedicated star
Cexing
blue-white · Cassiopeia · κ Cas
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
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Cexing at a glance
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Other name
- κ Cas
- Catalogue number
- HIP 2599
- Distance
- Not quoted. Gaia's parallax for this star carries an error larger than a sixth of the parallax itself, which is normal for a distant supergiant and too loose to quote a distance from.
- Brightness
- Magnitude 4.16 naked-eye
- Star type
- BC0.7Ia
- Colour
- blue-white
- Best seen from
- The far northern sky
- Right ascension
- 00h 33m 00s
- Declination
- +62° 55′ 54″
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 Cexing?
Cexing is a blue-white supergiant. Its surface runs somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000°C, which is what gives it a blue-white cast. 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-white star still in the steady part of its life would burn for tens of millions of 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 supergiant, which means it has left the stable part of its life and swollen enormously. Put it where the Sun is and its surface would swallow the inner planets. Stars this size do not fade quietly; this one will end as a supernova, and on a human timescale that could be tonight or in a million years.
Cexing 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.
Where can you see Cexing?
It is a deep-northern star: easy from Europe, North America and northern Asia, but it never rises for observers south of about latitude 27°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 63°N. It stands highest at midnight in September, so September and October evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 4.16 it is a naked-eye star only under a dark sky, binoculars make it certain.
Cexing belongs to Cassiopeia.
What does Cexing mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Cexing, 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, Cexing stands at 12° Taurus at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 2 May 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 Cexing
- What does Cexing mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Cexing. Projected onto the zodiac, Cexing stands at 12° Taurus, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 2 May.
- Is Cexing the brightest star?
- Cexing shines at magnitude 4.16 · visible to the naked eye on a clear night, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Cexing?
- No distance is quoted for Cexing. Gaia's parallax for this star carries an error larger than a sixth of the parallax itself, which is normal for a distant supergiant and too loose to quote a distance from.
- Which constellation contains Cexing?
- Cexing is part of Cassiopeia.
- Can everyone see Cexing?
- It is a deep-northern star: easy from Europe, North America and northern Asia, but it never rises for observers south of about latitude 27°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 63°N. It stands highest at midnight in September, so September and October evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 4.16 it is a naked-eye star only under a dark sky, binoculars make it certain.
- Is dedicating Cexing an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Cexing 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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