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Tojil
Tojil: the golden star of Eridanus
golden · Eridanus · WASP-22
Tojil is a golden star, warmer-toned than our Sun in the constellation Eridanus, one of the stars with a proper name recognised in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. At magnitude 11.58 it is a binocular or telescope object.
Most stars in the sky are anonymous points of light. Tojil 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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Tojil at a glance
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Other name
- WASP-22
- Catalogue number
- WASP-22
- Distance
- ≈ 1,034 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 11.58 telescope
- Star type
- G
- Colour
- golden
- Best seen from
- Almost everywhere on Earth
- Right ascension
- 03h 31m 16s
- Declination
- −23° 49′ 11″
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 Tojil?
Tojil is a yellow star. Its surface runs about 5,500°C, near enough the Sun's own surface temperature. 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.
This is the Sun's class. Looking at a star like this is the closest you get to seeing what our own star looks like from outside, which is a stranger thought than it first sounds.
A star of this class gets around ten thousand million years, and the Sun is halfway through its own.
The light you are looking at is old
Tojil is about 1,034 light years away, so the light reaching you now set out around 992. 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 Tojil dedication represent?
Tojil 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 Eridanus in the sky.”
Where can you see Tojil?
It sits 24° south of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 66°N, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 24°S. It stands highest at midnight in November, so November and December evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 11.58 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Tojil belongs to Eridanus.
What does Tojil mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Tojil, 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, Tojil 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.
Dedicate Tojil 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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Dedicate Tojil →Real star · your message · a page to share
Your Tojil dedication includes
- Your chosen dedication name
- Your personal message
- Tojil's real astronomical coordinates
- A shareable dedication page
- Its location on the AsterNym Galaxy Map
- An optional printable certificate and gift presentation
Tojil keeps its established astronomical name. Your dedication is a personal commemorative record within the AsterNym registry.
Frequently asked questions about Tojil
- What does Tojil mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Tojil. Projected onto the zodiac, Tojil stands at 12° Taurus, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 2 May.
- Is Tojil the brightest star?
- Tojil shines at magnitude 11.58 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Tojil?
- Tojil is approximately 1,034 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 1,034 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Tojil?
- Tojil is part of Eridanus.
- Can everyone see Tojil?
- It sits 24° south of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 66°N, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 24°S. It stands highest at midnight in November, so November and December evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 11.58 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Tojil an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Tojil 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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