Constellation
Cepheus
Cepheus (Cep) is one of the 88 constellations recognised by the International Astronomical Union. Its brightest star is Alderamin (magnitude 2.45).
| Latin name | Cepheus |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | Cep |
| Brightest star | Alderamin |
| Stars in this encyclopedia | 251 |
| Stars with exoplanets | 39 |
| Deep-sky objects | 157 |
| Galaxies | 17 |
In the sky
Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 19° S. North of latitude 19° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in September, the best time to observe it.
Its brightest stars
- Alderamin 2.45 · 49.0 light-years
- Errai 3.21 · 45.0 light-years
- Alfirk 3.23 · 685.2 light-years
- ζ Cep 3.39 · 989.2 light-years
- η Cep 3.41 · 46.9 light-years
- ι Cep 3.50 · 119.5 light-years
- δ Cep 4.07 · 917.5 light-years
- ε Cep 4.18 · 85.5 light-years
- θ Cep 4.21 · 138.9 light-years
- HIP 5372 4.24 · 301.9 light-years
- Kurhah 4.26 · 101.5 light-years
- κ Cep 4.38 · 320.4 light-years
- π Cep 4.41 · 268.5 light-years
- GJ 9706 4.52 · 92.6 light-years
- 11 Cep 4.55 · 179.4 light-years
- HIP 113116 4.70 · 373.1 light-years
- ο Cep 4.75 · 199.8 light-years
- HIP 112519 4.77 · 315.7 light-years
- 24 Cep 4.79 · 393.9 light-years
- 16 Cep 5.04 · 119.8 light-years
- HIP 37391 5.05 · 530.2 light-years
- λ Cep 5.05 · 2,773 light-years
- HIP 117371 5.05 · 311.7 light-years
- 19 Cep 5.07 · 3,191 light-years
- 31 Cep 5.08 · 188.1 light-years
Its stars with exoplanets
- Errai 1 planet(s)
- HD 18438 1 planet(s)
- HD 12648 1 planet(s)
- HD 216520 2 planet(s)
- TOI-1431 1 planet(s)
- HD 207897 1 planet(s)
- HD 211403 1 planet(s)
- HD 211810 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1518 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1408 2 planet(s)
- HIP 109384 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1630 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1669 2 planet(s)
- TOI-1288 2 planet(s)
- TYC 4282-00605-1 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1758 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1516 1 planet(s)
- TOI-2154 1 planet(s)
- TOI-2031 A 1 planet(s)
- TOI-2152 1 planet(s)
- TOI-2040 1 planet(s)
- TOI-4153 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1420 1 planet(s)
- TOI-4155 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1759 1 planet(s)
- TOI-4145 A 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1466 1 planet(s)
- TOI-4329 1 planet(s)
- TOI-7155 1 planet(s)
- GJ 4276 1 planet(s)
- G 264-012 2 planet(s)
- TOI-4034 1 planet(s)
- TOI-2285 1 planet(s)
- TOI-6324 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1756 1 planet(s)
- TOI-6034 1 planet(s)
- TOI-1448 1 planet(s)
- TOI-2267 A 2 planet(s)
- TOI-2267 B 1 planet(s)
Deep-sky objects
- PSR B2045+56 (J2046+5708) Pulsar
- PSR J2205+6012 Pulsar
- PSR J2229+6114 Pulsar
- PSR B2227+61 (J2229+6205) Pulsar
- PSR B2148+63 (J2149+6329) Pulsar
- PSR B2224+65 (J2225+6535) Pulsar
- PSR B2241+69 (J2242+6950) Pulsar
- PSR J0007+7303 Pulsar
- Pal 1 Globular cluster
- NGC 7261 Star cluster
- King 19 Star cluster
- NGC 7226 Star cluster
- FSR 0334 Star cluster
- BDSB 23 Star cluster
- Teutsch 126 Star cluster
- Berkeley 94 Star cluster
- SBB 2 Star cluster
- IRAS 21388+5622 Star cluster
- FSR 0356 Star cluster
- NGC 7423 Star cluster
- ASCC 120 Star cluster
- NGC 7235 Star cluster
- IC 1396 Star cluster
- Berkeley 92 Star cluster
- NGC 7055 Star cluster
- FSR 0354 Star cluster
- NGC 7281 Star cluster
- Teutsch 74 Star cluster
- NGC 7380 Star cluster
- FSR 0377 Star cluster
- King 18 Star cluster
- FSR 0381 Star cluster
- FSR 0394 Star cluster
- FSR 0358 Star cluster
- FSR 0385 Star cluster
- Teutsch 125 Star cluster
- FSR 0366 Star cluster
- Berkeley 97 Star cluster
- Berkeley 95 Star cluster
- King 10 Star cluster
- Teutsch 54 Star cluster
- FSR 0417 Star cluster
- Czernik 42 Star cluster
- NGC 7429 Star cluster
- FSR 0364 Star cluster
- Kumar 21 Star cluster
- Teutsch 53 Star cluster
- Markarian 50 Star cluster
- NGC 7510 Star cluster
- FSR 0351 Star cluster
- NGC 6939 Star cluster
- NGC 7419 Star cluster
- FSR 0369 Star cluster
- FSR 0422 Star cluster
- Pfleiderer 3 Star cluster
- ASCC 118 Star cluster
- FSR 0425 Star cluster
- BDSB 30 Star cluster
- NGC 7538 Star cluster
- FSR 0378 Star cluster
- Teutsch 76 Star cluster
- LDN 1211 Star cluster
- FSR 0404 Star cluster
- ASCC 117 Star cluster
- FSR 0346 Star cluster
- FSR 0347 Star cluster
- FSR 0406 Star cluster
- NGC 7160 Star cluster
- FSR 0413 Star cluster
- FSR 0414 Star cluster
- FSR 0416 Star cluster
- FSR 0418 Star cluster
- Pismis-Moreno 1 Star cluster
- FSR 0388 Star cluster
- Berkeley 100 Star cluster
- Berkeley 93 Star cluster
- FSR 0398 Star cluster
- FSR 0430 Star cluster
- Berkeley 101 Star cluster
- ASCC 127 Star cluster
- FSR 0423 Star cluster
- NGC 7142 Star cluster
- BDSB 31 Star cluster
- NGC 7129 Star cluster
- FSR 0405 Star cluster
- Berkeley 59 Star cluster
- NGC 7762 Star cluster
- PTB 9 Star cluster
- PTB 6 Star cluster
- PTB 7 Star cluster
- FSR 0368 Star cluster
- IRAS 00013+6817 Star cluster
- King 11 Star cluster
- FSR 0429 Star cluster
- FSR 0428 Star cluster
- FSR 0386 Star cluster
- FSR 0379 Star cluster
- FSR 0389 Star cluster
- PTB 3 Star cluster
- PTB 4 Star cluster
- vdBergh 152 Star cluster
- FSR 0464 Star cluster
- PTB 2 Star cluster
- Berkeley 99 Star cluster
- Collinder 471 Star cluster
- NGC 7708 Star cluster
- FSR 0466 Star cluster
- vdBergh 150 Star cluster
- FSR 0446 Star cluster
- FSR 0449 Star cluster
- FSR 0437 Star cluster
- FSR 0410 Star cluster
- FSR 0532 Star cluster
- FSR 0492 Star cluster
- FSR 0504 Star cluster
- SAI 30 Star cluster
- NGC 188 Star cluster
- K 3-63 Planetary nebula
- A 77 Planetary nebula
- M 1-80 Planetary nebula
- A 73 Planetary nebula
- M 2-51 Planetary nebula
- M 2-52 Planetary nebula
- K 3-60 Planetary nebula
- Bl 2- 1 Planetary nebula
- NGC 7354 Planetary nebula
- A 75 Planetary nebula
- NGC 7139 Planetary nebula
- IsWe 2 Planetary nebula
- KjPn 6 Planetary nebula
- A 1 Planetary nebula
- M 2-55 Planetary nebula
- NGC 40 Planetary nebula
- IC 1454 Planetary nebula
- DA 530 (SNR G93.3+6.9) Supernova
- SNR G108.2-0.6 Supernova
- SNR G106.3+2.7 Supernova
- CTA 1 (SNR G119.5+10.2) Supernova
- Sh2-128 Nebula
- Sh2-131 Nebula
- Sh2-132 Nebula
- Sh2-135 Nebula
- Sh2-139 Nebula
- Sh2-140 Nebula
- Sh2-142 Nebula
- Sh2-143 Nebula
- Sh2-141 Nebula
- Sh2-146 Nebula
- Sh2-148 Nebula
- Sh2-150 Nebula
- Sh2-156 Nebula
- Sh2-155 Nebula
- Sh2-157 Nebula
- NGC 7538 Nebula
- Sh2-161 Nebula
- Sh2-167 Nebula
- Sh2-171 Nebula
Galaxies
- Cepheus1 19.6 million light-years
- KKR 60 19.2 million light-years
- KKR 59 19.2 million light-years
- KKR 56 19.2 million light-years
- KK 251 19.2 million light-years
- KKR 55 19.2 million light-years
- UGC 11583 19.2 million light-years
- KK 252 19.2 million light-years
- NGC 6949 128.6 million light-years
- NGC 6951 66.3 million light-years
- IC 1502 91.7 million light-years
- NGC 1184 109.1 million light-years
- IC 469 96.9 million light-years
- IC 455 95.5 million light-years
- NGC 2300 88.7 million light-years
- NGC 2276 112.6 million light-years
- NGC 1544 183.4 million light-years
Its other stars
- HIP 23265
- HIP 19461
- HIP 108317
- HIP 107230
- 6 Cep
- 30 Cep
- HIP 109572
- HIP 113864
- 18 Cep
- 20 Cep
- HIP 109693
- HIP 109592
- HIP 20776
- 7 Cep
- HIP 15547
- ρ² Cep
- HIP 20982
- HIP 110725
- HD 18438
- HIP 20860
- HIP 105259
- HIP 109474
- HIP 106227
- 12 Cep
- HIP 103598
- 14 Cep
- HIP 114831
- HIP 115746
- HIP 4283
- 4 Cep
- HIP 5626
- HIP 115770
- HIP 112864
- HIP 16489
- HIP 379
- HIP 107930
- HIP 111242
- HIP 106886
- 25 Cep
- HIP 109620
- HIP 13055
- HIP 111660
- HIP 99663
- HIP 103810
- ρ¹ Cep
- HIP 19454
- HIP 108226
- HIP 116380
- HIP 104171
- HIP 109972
- HIP 112833
- HIP 114745
- HIP 102358
- HIP 104105
- HIP 14844
- HIP 104968
- HIP 107374
- HIP 116714
- HIP 117265
- HIP 108505
- HIP 105727
- HIP 116728
- HIP 103219
- HIP 105080
- HIP 760
- HIP 111314
- HIP 112998
- HIP 102011
- HIP 9568
- HIP 110498
- HIP 10054
- HIP 112635
- HIP 107197
- HIP 105370
- HIP 105949
- HIP 109659
- HIP 104756
- HIP 109746
- HIP 106052
- HIP 28532
- HIP 102216
- HIP 107723
- HIP 110497
- HIP 112670
- HIP 5928
- HIP 114227
- HIP 103346
- HIP 5412
- HIP 114212
- HIP 111325
- HIP 5947
- HIP 109585
- HIP 110919
- HIP 302
- HIP 110988
- HIP 108420
- HIP 112508
- HIP 109190
- HIP 1296
- HIP 114984
- HIP 109434
- Gl 909A
- HIP 107893
- HIP 3132
- HIP 104788
- HIP 109124
- HIP 20039
- HIP 108364
- HIP 105091
- HIP 105193
- HIP 108133
- HIP 10623
- HIP 102771
- HIP 107555
- HIP 112324
- HIP 10309
- HIP 110314
- HIP 113498
- HIP 106604
- HIP 107710
- HIP 128
- HIP 25911
- HIP 102370
- GJ 9843
- HD 12648
- GJ 4194
- GJ 1255A
- GJ 9808
- HD 216520
- GJ 1255-
- TOI-1431
- HD 207897
- GJ 9035
- HD 211403
- Gl 809
- HD 211810
- Gl 786
- GJ 9758
- TOI-1518
- TOI-1408
- GJ 4280
- Kruger 60
- HIP 109384
- Gl 56.4
- TOI-1630
- Gl 854
- Gl 851.4
- GJ 1278
- GJ 4156
- TOI-1669
- GJ 1255C
- Gl 21
- Gl 793
- TOI-1288
- Gl 842.2
- TYC 4282-00605-1
- GJ 3262
- GJ 9725
- GJ 9809
- TOI-1758
- TOI-1516
- GJ 3014A
- TOI-2154
- Gl 133
- Gl 860B
- GJ 1010A
- TOI-2031 A
- TOI-2152
- TOI-2040
- GJ 4258A
- TOI-4153
- GJ 4170
- Gl 909B
- TOI-1420
- GJ 4311
- TOI-4155
- TOI-1759
- GJ 1266
- TOI-4145 A
- TOI-1466
- GJ 4312
- Gl 11A
- GJ 1254
- TOI-4329
- Gl 878
- TOI-7155
- GJ 3456
- Gl 828.5
- GJ 3137
- GJ 4267
- GJ 4276
- GJ 4150
- G 264-012
- TOI-4034
- GJ 9722
- TOI-2285
- Gl 11B
- TOI-6324
- TOI-1756
- GJ 1010B
- Gl 802
- GJ 4307
- GJ 1035
- TOI-6034
- TOI-1448
- TOI-2267 A
- GJ 4255
- GJ 3015B
- TOI-2267 B
- 2MASS J01390900+8109597
- 2MASS J22114470+6856262
- 2MASS J04150602+8230557
- 2MASS J21265916+7617440
- 2MASS J01385967+8110079
- WISE J231921.92+764544.4
- WISE J213512.63+731236.8
- 2MASS J23140244+6939368
- 2MASS J23072655+8753294
- WISE J204356.42+622048.9
- 2MASS J21543318+5942187
- WISE J223720.39+722833.8
- WISEA J205921.85+662725.2
- WISE J003830.54+840517.7
- WISEPA J031325.96+780744.2
- CWISEP J213249.05+690113.7
- WISEA J001449.96+795116.1