Zeta Persei is a multiple system, also with faint companions: AB: 2.9, 9.5; 208º and separation 12.9".
C is a dim 11.3, PA 286º and separation 32.8";
D is 9.5, 195º, 94.2".
[6455] zeta Persei is another supergiant, B class, approximately 980 light-years away. It has the luminosity 105,000 times that of the Sun. The primary star has four companions: two dwarfs and two line-of-sight coincidences.
At the end of one of the star-streams that make most of Perseus, just to the west of bright Zeta Persei, lies seemingly modest Atik, Omicron Persei, the name apparently referring to a "shoulder" of the Pleiades, ...
18 1203 zeta PER 3 54 7.9 +31 53 1 B1Ib 2.85 0.12 834 eta PER 2 50 41.8 +55 53 44 M3-Ib-IIa 3.76 1.68 799 theta PER 2 44 11.9 +49 13 43 F8V 4.12 0.49 937 iota PER 3 9 4.0 +49 36 48 G0V 4.05 0.59 941 kappa PER 3 9 29.7 +44 51 27 K0III 3.80 0.
An HII region ionized by Zeta Persei. [H76]
Californium
A silvery radioactive transuranic element of the actinoid series of metals, not found naturally on Earth.
 See also: Star, Cluster, Constellations, Perseus, Zeta Persei
  
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