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Common star 20 EP

47 Cas

RA 31.2797° · Dec 77.2813° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
20 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 20

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F0Vn — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 5.3 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Cassiopeia.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.667
bv
0.345
constellation
Cas
dist ly
108.1419
luminosity
7.4679
mag
5.27
name
47 Cas
spect
F0Vn

About 47 Cas

47 Cas is a common star. It lies about 108.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cas, shines at apparent magnitude 5.27 and has spectral type F0Vn.

Its spectrum reads F0Vn — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for 47 Cas in the constellation Cas. At apparent magnitude 5.27, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 47 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 47 Cas is a common star

47 Cas scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence star — 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.