Zeta Cephei

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Zeta Cephei (stars.astro.illinois.edu) Third magnitude (3.35) Zeta, notably brighter than Delta, lies with Epsilon Cephei in a little triangle at Cepheus’s southeastern corner.

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Zeta Cephei (Wikipedia) Zeta Cephei (ζ Cep, ζ Cephei) is a red supergiant star, located about 1000 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus. Zeta Cephei marks the left shoulder of Cepheus, the King of Ethiopia. It is one of the fundamental stars of the MK spectral sequence, defined as type K1.5 Ib.