Garnet Star

Cepheus · µ Cep · HR 8316

HIP107259
IAU adoption2024/09/19

Name origin

Piazzi (1803) named the star Garnet Sidus due to a description by W. Herschel (1773) as "deep garnet red"; the English name is well-established in recent literature and textbooks.

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