Pi Persei [SEP] constellation
Pi Persei
Pi Persei (π Per) is a star in the constellation Perseus. It also has the traditional name Gorgonea Secunda .
Pi Persei has an apparent magnitude of +4.7 and spectral class A2V. The star is about 310 light years from Earth.
In Chinese astronomy, Gorgonea Secunda is called 積屍, Pinyin: Jīshī, meaning "Heap of Corpses", because this star is marking itself and stand alone in "Heap of Corpses" asterism, Stomach mansion (see : Chinese constellation). 積屍 (Jīshī
, who called it "Divels head" or "Rosch hassatan". A Latin name for Algol from the 16th century was "Caput Larvae" or "the Spectre's Head". Hipparchus and Pliny made this a separate, though connected, constellation.
In Chinese, (), meaning "Mausoleum", refers to an asterism consisting of β Persei, 9 Persei, τ Persei, ι Persei, κ Persei, ρ Persei, 16 Persei and 12 Persei. Consequently, the Chinese name for β Persei itself