Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Acklington, UK

f/1.8
8 seconds exposure

Cassiopeia
Five brightest stars of Cassiopeia – Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon Cassiopeiae – form the characteristic W-shaped.

Alpha - is a four star system The primary is an orange-hued giant of magnitude 2.2, 228 light-years from Earth.

Beta is a white-hued star of magnitude 2.3, 54.7 light-years from Earth.=10.5px Around 1.2 billion years old, it has used up its core hydrogen and begun expanding and cooling off the main sequence. It is around 1.9 times as massive as the Sun,.

Delta is 99.4 light-years from Earth.

Epsilon is located 410 light-years from Earth. It is a hot blue-white star with a surface temperature of 15,680 K. It is 6.5 times as massive and 4.2 times as wide as the Sun.

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Cassiopeia, autonm