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Proper Name	Segin
Bayer Designation	Epsilon Cassiopeiae
Flamsteed Number	45 Cassiopeiae
HR (BSC)	542
HD	11415
Constellation	Cassiopeia
Right Ascension	1h 54m 24s
Declination	+63° 40' 12"
Distance	459 light years 141 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +3.3 Absolute: -2.2
Spectral Class	B3IV:p(shell) blue subgiant
Optimum Visibility	October / November (Usually visible from northern latitudes)
Notes	A blue star some six times the size and the mass of the Sun, Segin is surrounded be a shell of material expelled by the star. It is one of more than ninety stars that together form the Cassiopeia-Taurus association stretching across the northern sky.

The northernmost of the five stars that make up the famous 'W' of Cassiopeia, Segin is also the faintest, and the only one below second magnitude. It is a variable blue star some 459 light years from Earth.

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