Caph and Schedir are names of stars dominating the constellation of Cassiopeia. The constellation of Cassiopeia has become a part of our logo, it is circumpolar and therefore it reigns our night sky all year round.
Caph is hot, 55 light years distant star and it shines in yellow even in white and it has a small companion star orbiting it in a period of 27 days.
A variable star of orange light Schedir has about forty times larger diameter than our Sun and about 4 up to 5 times larger weight and it is about 230 light years distant.
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