T Cephei [SEP] constellation
T Cephei
T Cephei is a Mira variable star in the constellation Cepheus. Located approximately distant, it varies between magnitudes 5.2 and 11.3 over a period of around 388 days.
Stellar Properties.
T Cephei is a red giant of spectral type M6-9e with an effective temperature 2,400 K, a radius of , a mass of , and a luminosity of . If it were in the place of the Sun, its photosphere would at least engulf the orbit of Mars. This star is believed to be in a
1978 by tenor Louis Botto, who sang with the group until 1989, and served as Artistic Director until his death from AIDS in 1997.
As a graduate student of musicology, Botto found that much of the medieval and Renaissance music he was studying was not being performed, and, because of this, he formed the group to perform this music with an all-male ensemble, as it was traditionally sung during the Renaissance.
Originally, the group contained ten singers, but its size has varied from eight to