The Fixed Stars

Navi

Gamma Cassiopeiae, Tsih

An informal modern name; the whip, Tsih, in the Chinese.

The restless central star of the W, a flaring variable at the queen's waist.

Gamma Cassiopeiae is the bright, unstable central star of the W, an eruptive variable. It carries no old proper name; Navi is a twentieth-century nickname, and Tsih, the whip, is its Chinese title.