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Epic star 51 EP

10Bet Cam

RA 75.8545° · Dec 60.4422° · star

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
51 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Supergiant +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 51

27 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Supergiant · +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) · +10

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G0Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a supergiant, hundreds of times wider than the Sun.

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 4 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Camelopardalis.
  • 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 December — 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. ≈ 15.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-3.106
bv
0.921
constellation
Cam
dist ly
872.0749
luminosity
1521.9487
mag
4.03
name
10Bet Cam
spect
G0Ib

About 10Bet Cam

10Bet Cam is an epic star. It lies about 872.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cam, shines at apparent magnitude 4.03 and has spectral type G0Ib.

Its spectrum reads G0Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for 10Bet Cam in the constellation Cam. At apparent magnitude 4.03, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 10Bet 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.

Why 10Bet Cam is an epic star

10Bet Cam scores 51 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 27 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Sun-like G-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.