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A dedicated star
Koit
yellow-white · Lynx · XO-4
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, Koit becomes available again. Want it? Put the date in your calendar.
Koit at a glance
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Other name
- XO-4
- Catalogue number
- XO-4
- Distance
- ≈ 863 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 10.78 telescope
- Star type
- F5
- Colour
- yellow-white
- Best seen from
- The Northern Hemisphere and lower southern latitudes
- Right ascension
- 07h 21m 33s
- Declination
- +58° 16′ 05″
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 Koit?
Koit 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.
The light you are looking at is old
Koit is about 863 light years away, so the light reaching you now set out around 1163. 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 Koit?
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 32°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 58°N. It stands highest at midnight in January, so January and February evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 10.78 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Koit belongs to Lynx.
What does Koit mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Koit, 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, Koit stands at 13° Cancer at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 3 July 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 Koit
- What does Koit mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Koit. Projected onto the zodiac, Koit stands at 13° Cancer, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 3 July.
- Is Koit the brightest star?
- Koit shines at magnitude 10.78 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Koit?
- Koit is approximately 863 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 863 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Koit?
- Koit is part of Lynx.
- Can everyone see Koit?
- 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 32°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 58°N. It stands highest at midnight in January, so January and February evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 10.78 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Koit an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Koit 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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