RA 68.0077° · Dec 53.9108° · star
16 more points to reach Epic.
1 Cam is a rare variable star. It sits in the constellation Cam, shines at apparent magnitude 5.78 and has spectral type B0III SB.
Its spectrum reads B0III SB — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
Look for 1 Cam in the constellation Cam. At apparent magnitude 5.78, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, 1 Cam 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.
1 Cam scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Hot blue B-type star, Giant star, Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) and A named variable 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.