diff --git a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts
index fbcc633..6867d19 100644
--- a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts
@@ -989,6 +989,8 @@ describe('GalaxySystemSceneComponent camera-flight transitions', () => {
       expect(radius / SUN_RADIUS_AU).toBeLessThan(760);
       expect(scene.controls.minDistance).toBeCloseTo(closestApproachAu(radius), 9);
       expect(scene.controls.minDistance).toBeGreaterThan(9);
+      // Settled where its disc stays inside the ring of its neighbours' names, not pressed up to it.
+      expect(engine.getCamera().position.length()).toBeGreaterThan(1.2 * scene.controls.minDistance);
     });
 
     it('draws a star nothing gives a size or temperature for as a grey point, not as the Sun', async () => {
diff --git a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.spec.ts b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.spec.ts
index 1f38a90..ee65dba 100644
--- a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.spec.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,17 @@ describe('systemFramingDistanceAu', () => {
     expect(systemFramingDistanceAu(0, undefined, 0.00465)).toBe(systemFramingDistanceAu(0));
   });
 
+  it("holds a giant's disc inside the ring its neighbours are named on, and the camera clear of its closest approach", () => {
+    // The ring is at 0.74 of the tighter half-extent; the disc is kept to half of it, in either window.
+    const betelgeuseAu = 2.72;
+    for (const viewport of [{ fovDegrees: 50, aspect: 1.6 }, { fovDegrees: 50, aspect: 0.6 }]) {
+      const distance = systemFramingDistanceAu(0, viewport, betelgeuseAu);
+      const tight = Math.tan((25 * Math.PI) / 180) * Math.min(1, viewport.aspect);
+      expect(Math.tan(Math.asin(betelgeuseAu / distance)) / tight).toBeCloseTo(0.5, 9);
+      expect(distance).toBeGreaterThan(closestApproachAu(betelgeuseAu));
+    }
+  });
+
   it('caps the distance so a far-flung companion cannot shrink the star to nothing', () => {
     expect(systemFramingDistanceAu(1000)).toBe(systemFramingDistanceAu(5000));
   });
diff --git a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.ts b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.ts
index 73e221f..5718542 100644
--- a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-framing.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,15 @@ const MIN_FRAMING_DISTANCE_AU = 0.06;
  */
 const MAX_FRAMING_DISTANCE_AU = 200;
 
+/**
+ * How much of the view's tighter half-extent a giant's disc may take on arrival: inside the ring
+ * the system view names the star's neighbours on, at 0.74 of it, and clear of the names hung
+ * inward from it, whose nearest corners come within 292 px of the centre on a 1 000 px view.
+ * Framed to fill the frame instead, Betelgeuse settled at the three-radius closest approach with
+ * a disc of 379 px, past the 370 px ring, and its neighbours' names on it.
+ */
+const STAR_FRAME_FRACTION = 0.5;
+
 /** Framing for a star with no known planets, where there is nothing to fit. */
 const EMPTY_SYSTEM_FRAMING_DISTANCE_AU = 3;
 
@@ -116,8 +125,9 @@ export function systemFrameRadiusAu(distanceAu: number, viewport: SystemViewport
  */
 export function systemFramingDistanceAu(framedRadiusAu: number, viewport: SystemViewport = DEFAULT_SYSTEM_VIEWPORT, starRadiusAu = 0): number {
   // A giant drawn at its own radius can be wider than the system around it — Betelgeuse's 584
-  // solar radii are 2.7 AU — or than the empty framing, and the camera must not settle inside it.
-  const star = (starRadiusAu * (1 + FRAME_MARGIN)) / tightHalfExtent(viewport);
+  // solar radii are 2.7 AU — or than the empty framing. Its disc is a sphere's, whose silhouette
+  // from d subtends asin(R / d): the distance that makes it the fraction above of the view.
+  const star = starRadiusAu * Math.sqrt(1 + 1 / (STAR_FRAME_FRACTION * tightHalfExtent(viewport)) ** 2);
   if (!Number.isFinite(framedRadiusAu) || framedRadiusAu <= 0) {
     return Math.max(EMPTY_SYSTEM_FRAMING_DISTANCE_AU, star);
   }