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Iota Cassiopeiae

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Iota Casι CasStar system in Cassiopeia

Iota Cassiopeiae

Object Iota Cassiopeiae
Observed at Dunaharaszti, HU, 2025-08-28 23:40
NELM ~ 4.0
Seeing 3
Aperture 127 mm
Magnification 171x
FOV 0.4°
Other data  
PA ~260°
Separation 2.7”

This night was a ‘practice session’ for measuring separation of double stars. With seeing of 3-4 and clouds coming there was nothing else to do.

Object data

Objects Iota Cas A Iota Cas B Iota Cas C
Fetched as HD 15089    
Desc. Binary star with a white main sequence primary Yellow main sequence star Binary star
RA 02h 29m 03s †    
Dec 67° 24’ 9” †    
Magnitude 4.65 / 8.48 6.87 9.14 / 11.84
Spectral class A3p / G6 F5 K4 / M2

† fetched from astronomyapi.com