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Tislit
Tislit: the yellow-white star of Puppis
yellow-white · Puppis · WASP-161
Tislit is a yellow-white star, a near cousin of our own Sun's colour in the constellation Puppis, one of the stars with a proper name recognised in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. At magnitude 10.77 it is a binocular or telescope object.
Most stars in the sky are anonymous points of light. Tislit is not. Some IAU-recognised names are ancient; others were adopted by the IAU only recently. Either way, the star already has a scientific identity, and a dedication attaches a human story to it.
Real star · Personal dedication · Recorded in the AsterNym registry
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Tislit at a glance
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Other name
- WASP-161
- Catalogue number
- WASP-161
- Distance
- ≈ 1,162 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 10.77 telescope
- Star type
- F6
- Colour
- yellow-white
- Best seen from
- Almost everywhere on Earth
- Right ascension
- 08h 25m 21s
- Declination
- −11° 30′ 04″
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 Tislit?
Tislit 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
Tislit is about 1,162 light years away, so the light reaching you now set out around 864. 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.
What could a Tislit dedication represent?
Tislit is especially meaningful for someone who:
- · Deserves something older than any gift shop
- · Marks a beginning, an anniversary or a promise
- · Is remembered every time you look up
- · Has a light you want recorded somewhere permanent
Dedication idea
“For the one I think of when I find Puppis in the sky.”
Where can you see Tislit?
It sits 12° south of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 78°N, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 12°S. It stands highest at midnight in January, so January and February evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 10.77 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Tislit belongs to Puppis.
What does Tislit mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Tislit, 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, Tislit stands at 11° Leo at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 1 August 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.
Dedicate Tislit to someone who matters
A flower fades. A card is eventually put away. A star gives your message a place in the sky.
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Your Tislit dedication includes
- Your chosen dedication name
- Your personal message
- Tislit's real astronomical coordinates
- A shareable dedication page
- Its location on the AsterNym Galaxy Map
- An optional printable certificate and gift presentation
Tislit keeps its established astronomical name. Your dedication is a personal commemorative record within the AsterNym registry.
Frequently asked questions about Tislit
- What does Tislit mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Tislit. Projected onto the zodiac, Tislit stands at 11° Leo, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 1 August.
- Is Tislit the brightest star?
- Tislit shines at magnitude 10.77 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Tislit?
- Tislit is approximately 1,162 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 1,162 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Tislit?
- Tislit is part of Puppis.
- Can everyone see Tislit?
- It sits 12° south of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 78°N, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 12°S. It stands highest at midnight in January, so January and February evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 10.77 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Tislit an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Tislit 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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