6.8 mm, deep, well-proportioned dome. Four-rayed asterism with non-right-angle ray geometry — rays at oblique angles, diagnostic of diopside's monoclinic crystal system.

Very strong star under sun and penlight. Clean dome. The stone shows the rare goldish rays, not the way more common silver.

White areas in some photos are natural internal transparency captured by camera lighting. To the naked eye, the stone appears solid black apart from its star