Constellation: Cepheus
Right Ascension: 22h 23m 07.01521s
Declination: +55° 57′ 47.6244″
Distance: ~29,000 ly
Apparent Magnitude: 6.0 - 7.3
B-V Color Index: 2.22
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RW Cephei is one of the larger stars know of with its radius extending out to the same distance as Jupiter is to our Sun. It is classified as either a red or yellow hyper giant star depending on how it is measured as it lies some where in between. A semi-regular variable star with one period measured around 346 days.

Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM