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Common star 21 EP

14Tau Cap

RA 309.8180° · Dec -14.9548° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
21 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
Total score 21

3 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
  • Naked-eye visible · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 20 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.8 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 11.4 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1136 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 890.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2273 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-2.471
bv
-0.129
constellation
Cap
dist ly
1136.4322
mag
5.24
name
14Tau Cap
spect
B7III

About 14Tau Cap

14Tau Cap is a common star. It lies about 1,136.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cap, shines at apparent magnitude 5.24 and has spectral type B7III.

14Tau Cap is a common star worth 21 points across 3 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for 14Tau Cap in the constellation Cap. At apparent magnitude 5.24, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 14Tau Cap 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.

Why 14Tau Cap is a common star

14Tau Cap scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Distant (>1000 ly) and Naked-eye visible — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.