The traditional name of Wasat comes from the Arab 'Al Wasat', which means 'in the middle'. In China it was known as 'Ta Tsun', which means 'the big jar of wine'.
Wasat is white subgiant of spectral type F0 IV and with a surface temperature of 6900 K. It has a size 1.5 times that of the Sun and a fast rotation speed (129 km/s).
Wasat is a stereoscopic binary, whose components are separated from each other by 3.6 AU. A third component of spectral type K6V and supercifial temperature of 4500K, orbits every 1200 years at a distance of about 100 AU.
Its proximity to the ecliptic (-0.2º) causes it to be occasionally hidden by the Moon. In the year 1857 it was hidden by the planet Saturn. Pluto was discovered when it was very close to Wasat. Jupiter passed very close in December of 2013.
It is located in the longitude 108.8º (18º48' Cancer), and latitude 0.2º ( 0º10' Aries; conjunction, 0º10' orb).
And in the right ascension 110.0º (20º 2' 4th House; (quadri)trecile@110º46', 0º44' orb; (hepta)trevigintile@109º34', 0º28' orb; (onci)quartinovile@110º, 0º02' orb) and declination 22.0º (21º59' 1st House; semioctile 22º30', 0º31' orb).
Wasat is a star that reminds the quality of the planet Mercury, the Moon and the asteroid Eros. The symbolic image 'great jar of wine' and 'in the middle' refers to a great disinhibition when speaking, which attracts a group of people who end up surrounding her.
Wasat is related with an amazing communicative capacity, thanks to its loquacity and its rapid gestures when expressing herself (declination in semioctile aspect).
"Frozen" (2013)
