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The planet orbiting Gamma Cephei

This planet in a binary star system was discovered by COCHRAN W., HATZES A., ENDL M., PAULSON D., WALKER G., CAMPBELL B. & YANG S.

Viewed from Earth this binary star system is faintly visible to the naked-eye, appearing fairly close to Polaris in the night sky (see starmap link below). It looks like a single star.


Java animations of the planet orbiting Gamma Cephei ...

Animation with relative orbital inclination = 180 degrees (retrograde)

Animation with relative orbital inclination = 0 degrees (prograde)


Some external sites about this planet...

McDonald Observatory (starmap) - shows where Gamma Cephei is in the night sky.

McDonald Observatory

CNN

Univ of Texas

space.com

The Paris Observatory - technical data and links to academic papers.

Stability (abstract) - research by Dvorak et al into orbital stability of this planet and hypothetical other planets in this system

Stability (full paper in PDF format)


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