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A dedicated star
Siwarha
pale · Orion · α Ori B
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, Siwarha becomes available again. Want it? Put the date in your calendar.
Siwarha at a glance
- Constellation
- Orion
- Other name
- α Ori B
- Catalogue number
- α Ori B · -
- Distance
- Not quoted. The name is dedicated to a putative companion of Betelgeuse rather than to a separately measured star, so it has no spectral type or distance of its own.
- Brightness
- Magnitude 8.20 telescope
- Colour
- pale
- Best seen from
- Almost everywhere on Earth
- Right ascension
- 05h 55m 10s
- Declination
- +07° 24′ 25″
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 Siwarha?
Siwarha 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.
What does the name Siwarha mean?
The traditional name Betelgeuse was derived from the Arabic يد الجوزاء Yad al-Jawzā’ "the hand of al-Jawzā’ ".
The discoverers of the candidate companion star Betelgeuse B proposed the name Siwarha, which means her bracelet in Arabic.
Name origin from English Wikipedia. AsterNym does not invent an etymology where none is recorded, and most stars in this catalogue have none: they carry modern names, or a catalogue designation and nothing older.
Where can you see Siwarha?
It sits 7° north of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 83°S, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 7°N. It stands highest at midnight in December, so December and January evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 8.20 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Siwarha belongs to Orion.
What does Siwarha mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Siwarha, 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, Siwarha stands at 28° Gemini at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 18 June 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 Siwarha
- What does Siwarha mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Siwarha. Projected onto the zodiac, Siwarha stands at 28° Gemini, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 18 June.
- Is Siwarha the brightest star?
- Siwarha shines at magnitude 8.20 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Siwarha?
- No distance is quoted for Siwarha. The name is dedicated to a putative companion of Betelgeuse rather than to a separately measured star, so it has no spectral type or distance of its own.
- Which constellation contains Siwarha?
- Siwarha is part of Orion.
- Can everyone see Siwarha?
- It sits 7° north of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 83°S, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 7°N. It stands highest at midnight in December, so December and January evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 8.20 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Siwarha an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Siwarha 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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