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Common star 23 EP

30Mu Cas

RA 17.0622° · Dec 54.9203° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
23 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
Total score 23

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
  • Naked-eye visible · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 433 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 38.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 246 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 24.6 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2001.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 49.3 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
5.779
bv
0.704
constellation
Cas
dist ly
24.6378
mag
5.17
name
30Mu Cas
spect
G5Vp

About 30Mu Cas

30Mu Cas is a common star. It lies about 24.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cas, shines at apparent magnitude 5.17 and has spectral type G5Vp.

30Mu Cas is a common star worth 23 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 30Mu Cas in the constellation Cas. At apparent magnitude 5.17, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 30Mu Cas 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 30Mu Cas is a common star

30Mu Cas scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Nearby (<25 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.