RA 307.3350° · Dec 36.4547° · star
28 more points to reach Anomaly.
42 Cyg is an epic star. It lies about 2,588.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cyg, shines at apparent magnitude 5.9 and has spectral type A1Ib.
Its spectrum reads A1Ib — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
Look for 42 Cyg in the constellation Cyg. At apparent magnitude 5.9, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, 42 Cyg is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
42 Cyg scores 50 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 28 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, White A-type star, Supergiant and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.