- Stars with a name
- Miram
Miram
η Persei
Miram is an orange supergiant, in the constellation Perseus. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1147.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never sets: it circles the pole all night, all year.
Visible to the naked eye away from the brightest lights. Apparent magnitude 3.77.
What it’s like
It gives off 1,964 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface temperature is about 3,300 degrees Celsius.
It is 879.1 light years away: 8317 trillion kilometres.